Regiment 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles, Quebec Regiment, C Company, CEF
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Acting Major
Rank End Of Career Major-General
Place Of Birth Watford, Hertfordshire, England
Place Of Death At a rest home, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Buried/Location Ashes Holy Trinity Cemetery, West Saanich, Sidney, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Section 4 - West
Gazetted 11 January 1918
VC Presented 22 June 1918, King George V, Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Headstone, Holy Trinity Cemetery, West Saanich, Sidney, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Memorial Plaque, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Museum, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Pearkes Royal Canadian Legion Post, Summerside, Prince Edward Island, British Columbia, Canada
Pearkes Royal Canadian Legion Post, Princeton, British Columbia, Canada
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, British High Commission, Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Pearkes Recreation Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
General George Pearkes Elementary School, Hudsons Bay, British Columbia, Canada
George Pearkes Junior High School, Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Mount Pearkes, Near Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada
By The Way…
In 1945, he was elected Progressive Conservative MP for Nanaimo, British Columbia, appointed Minister of Defence and became a Canadian Privy Councillor in 1957, and was Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia from 1960 to 1968
VC Held By
Canadian War Museum, 1 Vimy Place, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
