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" Pearce received a congratulatory letter from the General Officer Commanding-in Chief of the Fourteenth Army
Mobilised with the 3rd Battalion on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914
below a riveted
Manitoba when he signed his Attestation Paper as a Private (420693) with the 43rd Infantry Battalion "Cameron Highlanders"
Australia, Commonwealth. An African Theatre Group Of Five, To Lieutenant Leonard De Vere Saunders Auction Archive " Pearce received a congratulatory1939 1945 Star (NX17742 L. D. SAUNDERS); Africa Star (NX17742 L. D. SAUNDERS); Defence Medal (NX17742 L. D. SAUNDERS); War Medal 1939 1945 (NX17742 L. D. SAUNDERS); and Australia Service Medal 1939 1945 (NX17742 L. V. SAUNDERS). Naming is officially impressed, the "N" for New South Wales, the "X" for Australian Imperial Forces Volunteer Overseas Service, the initial "D." appearing on the first four awards and changed to a "V" on the ASM. Un mounted,