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Captain Henry Goold Pearce, M.C., born Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, 1886; resided in Rhodesia prior to the outbreak of the Great War; served as a Corporal in the Northern Rhodesian Rifles, from 10.12.1914;
Discharged 30.4.1915 to return to the United Kingdom to take a commission in the Royal Engineers; served on the Western Front with the 171st Tunnelling Company,
Wounded 25.4.1917; the 171st Tunnelling Company were involved in the laying of 24 mines as part of the battle of Messines, from June 1917;
Pearce was killed in action, 15.7.1917, and is buried in the Poperinghe New Military Cemetery, Belgium.
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