240354 Pte Herbert Pearman, 1/5th Bn, Welsh Regt

240354 Private Herbert Pearman of the 1/5th Battalion, Welsh Regiment, died of wounds on the 4th April 1917. He was 19 years old, the son of Alfred and Bessie Pearman of 36 Park Street, Penrhiwceiber, Glamorgan. Soldiers Died in the Great War notes that Herbert was born at Llanwonno, was living at Penrhiwceiber, and enlisted at Mountain Ash. His original number with the 5th Welsh Regiment was 1566 which dates to around April 1912 (and means that unless the CWGC have recorded his age incorrectly, he was a very young 15-year-old when he joined up).

Herbert arrived overseas in the Balkans on the 9th August 1915. He is buried in Cairo War Memorial Cemetery in Egypt.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission