Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Major H. L. Pearson, Royal Field Artillery

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; 1914-15 Star (Capt. H. L. Pearson. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major H. L. Pearson.); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., silver and silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1918, with integral top slide riband bar, court mounted by Hunt & Roskell, London, as worn, gilding somewhat rubbed on first and last, good very fine (5) £800-£1,000

D.S.O. London Gazette 4 June 1917.

Harold Leslie Pearson was born on 26 November 1882, the son of Colonel M. B. Pearson, C.B., V.D., of Lee, Kent. Educated at Blackheath School, he was appointed to a commission with the 2nd Middlesex Royal Garrison Artillery Volunteers in 1903. Pearson was advanced Captain in the 3rd London Royal Field Artillery on constitution of the Territorial Force in 1908, and he served in France and Flanders from 3 October 1915, in command of “C” Battery, 282nd Army Brigade, Royal Field Artillery from 1916 to 1919. Appointed Temporary Major on 27 June 1916, Pearson was Mentioned in Despatches on 27 August 1918 and awarded the Territorial Decoration on 15 July 1919. Post-war, he appears to have resumed a career as a Member of the London Stock Exchange. He died in 1947.

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