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Sgt. Samuel George Pearse VC, MM.
British Army 45th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Victoria, Australia
(d.29th Aug 1919)
Samuel Pearse was from Koorlong, Mildura, Victoria, Australia. He was killed in action 29th of August aged 22, and is remembered in the Archangel Allied Cemetery in Russia.
An extract from The London Gazette, dated 23rd Oct., 1919, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery, devotion to duty and self sacrifice during the operation against the enemy battery position north of Emtsa (North Russia) on the 29th August, 1919. Serjeant Pearse cut his way through the enemy barbed wire under very heavy machine-gun and rifle fire and cleared a way for the troops to enter the battery position. Seeing that a blockhouse was harassing our advance and causing us casualties, he charged the blockhouse single-handed, killing the occupants with bombs. This gallant noncommissioned officer met his death a minute later, and it was due to him that the position was carried with so few casualties. His magnificent bravery and utter disregard for personal danger won for him the admiration of all troops."
