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BORN 19 January 1825
DIED 18 April 1892 AGE 67
VC Won 17 June 1858 AGE 33
Place VC Won Gwalior
War/Campaign The Indian Mutiny
Name John Pearson No. 1882 ELECTED BY REGIMENT
VC Issue No. 274 Awards VC
Regiment 8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars
Later
Now Queen's Royal Hussars
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth Seacroft, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Place Of Death Bruce County, Ontario, Canada
Buried/Location Ashes Eastnor Township Cemetery, near Lions Head, Ontario, Canada
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 26 January 1859
VC Presented 18 June 1859, GOC Bombay, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Somerset, India
Memorials
Headstone, Eastnor Township Cemetery, near Lions Head, Ontario, Canada
Plaque at Memorial Park, Lions Head, Ontario, Canada
P Named on Victoria Cross memorial outside Leeds City Art Gallery, Cetenary Square, Leeds, Yorkshire
Pearsons Court, Seacroft, Leeds, West Yorkshire
Pearsons Close, Seacroft, Leeds, West Yorkshire
Pearsons View, Seacroft, Leeds, West Yorkshire
By The Way…
After being discharged from the army he left England for a new life in Canada
VC Held By
The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
