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Walter Pearse

Class of 1904

  • Born December 20, 1890

  • 1904 - recognized for achieving 89% average in his high school exams

  • 1908 - graduated University School (Victoria, BC)

  • 1911 - Rhodes scholar from McGill University.

  • 1911 - won the Coronation Marathon

  • 1913 - returned to BC

  • 1915 - commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Horse Artillery and sent to front in WW I

  • April 9, 1917 - killed at Vimy Ridge, buried at the Ecoivres Military Cemetery in Mont St Eloi, France
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