• First World War Commemorative Project
• Introduction
• The Memorial Service
• About the Project

Born	September 30, 1896
Died	April 26, 1917, Age 20
Force	Army
Division	124th, Canadian Pioneers
Home Address	140 Bedford Road [Map]

Gordon Pearce was born in Seaforth, Ontario and moved to Saint Thomas and to Hamilton before eventually settling in Toronto. He graduated from UTS and went on to study Applied Science at the University of Toronto, joining the Governor General’s Body Guard in the autumn of 1915. In November, he was appointed a subaltern in the 124th Overseas Battalion and went to England in August 1916, where he received further training before arriving in France in March 1917. The following month he was in action near Vimy, leading a working party in a dangerously exposed position on the Souchez Road when he and his men were subjected to fierce enemy shelling. Pearce was instantly killed by the second shell. Both he and his older brother Walter, who was killed in 1916, are commemorated by a stained glass window in Grace Church-on-the-Hill in Toronto.

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