Private Lester B. Pearson Went overseas May 1915 and was with No.4 Hospital a year at Salonice. He returned to England and received Infantry Lieutenancy, later joining R.A.F. and was badly injured while in training. He invalided home in 1917 and acted as an instructor for R.A.F., in Aerial Navigation, at Toronto until the end of the war.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Sources

IODE, Park Street Methodist Church, Books of Remembrance for the Great War 1914 - 18. At St. Andrews UC, Chatham - January 2010, Chatham Daily Planet (07-09-1916), Chatham Daily Planet (18-04-1917), Chatham Daily Planet (04-07-1918), Chatham Daily Planet (09-07-1918)

Birthplace	Newtonbrook, Ontario
Religion	Methodist
When Enlisted	April 1915
Where Enlisted	Toronto
Next of Kin	Mr. & Mrs. E. A. Pearson

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