A search through the Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury archives for 1919 produced the following entry:
In Memoriam Column, 28th March 1919:
Corporal C. Pearce, 9th Lancers, husband of Ethel R. Pearce of Bramford and father to Jack. Killed in action 27th March 1918.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission database has a Cecil Ernest Pearce, Corporal, 2205 age 31 on the Pozieres Memorial, panel 4. He was the son of George Albert and Alice Pearce of 22 Radcliffe Avenue Harlesden, London and the husband of Ethel Rose Ruffles (formerly Pearce) of Slade Cottages, Claydon, Ipswich, Suffolk.
The “Soldiers Died in the Great War” database has him born in Willesden, Middlesex and resident in Bramford, Ipswich. He enlisted in London and held the rank of Corporal in the 9th Lancers as No. L/2205. His medal card indicates that he landed in France on 27th August 1914 and therefore he must have enlisted some time before the war broke out.
In 1911 Ethel was working in Willesden, London where she presumably met Cecil. They married in 1913 in Willesden.
His battalion was part of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade/2nd Cavalry Division and in action at the Battle of St Quentin (21st to 23rd March 1918). This was a phase of the First Battle of the Somme of that year, but Cecil’s Division was engaged right through to the 1st April 1918, when he was killed in action.
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