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Surname: McKEND
Forename(s): Pearson
Place of Birth: Southwick, Colvend, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
Service No: 17721
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Coldstream Guards
Battalion / Unit: 3rd Battalion
Division: Guards Division
Age: 22
Date of Death: 1917-07-06
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: I. F. 7.
CWGC Cemetery: MENDINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: DUNSOP BRIDGE, YORKSHIRE
Local War Memorial: SLAIDBURN, YORKSHIRE
Local War Memorial: WHITEWELL, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Ambrose Pearson McKend was the son of William and Betsy McKend, née Swanston. William was born at Dornock near Annan, Dumfiesshire and Betsy at Wilton, Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland.
1901 Over Wyresdale, Lancashire Census: Tower Lodge, Abbeystead - Ambrose McKend, aged 6 years, born Scotland, son of William and Betsy McKend.
1911 Over Wyresdale, Lancashire Census: Tower Lodge, Abbeystead - Pearson McKend, aged 16 years, born Southwick, Colvend, Kirkcudbright, son of William and Betsy McKend.
The British Army Pension Record for Ambrose Pearson McKend (15089) exists but may be incomplete. Ambrose joined the 9th (Sevice) Bn Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) but was discharged with chronic pulmonary tuberculosis on the 26 February 1915.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Pearson McKend, 17721, C. Gds.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Pearson McKend, 17721, C. Gds.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte Pearson McKend, 17721, Coldstream Guards. Date and Place of Death: 6.7.17. Wounds Belgium. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Father - William. £8 10s. 7d.
Pearson is commemorated in the Rolls of Honour at the Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh.
A short biography of Pearson is included in: ‘In Love, In Gratitude, In Remembrance – Remembering the Men & Women of Slaidburn, Newton in Bowland, Dunsop Bridge, Dale Head & Tosside’ by Margaret Brenchley (2018).
Photograph: ‘Clitheroe Advertiser’ (20 July 1917).
Data Source: Local War Memorial
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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Private Pearson McKEND
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Coldstream Guards
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: Guards Division
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