Commemorated:

1. Memorial:Beckenham Crematorium And Cemetery
2. Book:The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918Pg.129
    

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Family :

Son of T. Lambert Mears, M.A., LL.D., (Barrister at Law), and Alice Catherine Mears (nee Peel); husband of the late Mabel Fitz Roy Mears, (nee Ellis).

Service Life:

Campaigns:

Unit / Ship / Est.: RASC 

Action : Post War 

Post War includes all operations in all theatres up to 31st August 1921. This excludes the campaign in Russia against the Bolsheviks. It also includes men who succombed to wounds post war and who died from various causes whilst still in the services but post war.

CWGC Captain MEARS, FRANCIS PERL Died 22/02/1919 Aged 42 Royal Army Service Corps. Served in France and Salonica.

Detail :

De Ruvigny's Volume 5 - "MEARS, FRANCIS PEEL, Capt., Royal Army Service Corps, eldes s. of the late T. Lambert Mears, M.A., LL.D., of Regent's Park, N.W., Barrister-at-law, by his wife, Alice Catherine, dau, of I.H. Westcar Peel; b. London, 31 May 1876; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Garrison Artillery; served some time, and was invalided out of the Service in 1904; took Holy Orders the same year; volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war, and was gazetted Lieut. A.S.C. in 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and subsequently in Macedonia; returned home in April 1918, and proceeded to Ireland, where he served until he died at King George V, Military Hospital, Dublin, 22 Feb. 1919, of Macedonian malaria and pneumonia, contracted whilst on active service. Buried in Sydenham, S.E. He m. in 1902, Mabel Fitzroy, dau. of Dr. Ellis, and had a son, Francis Ronald Lambert, b. in 1903."

Masonic :

TypeLodge Name and No.Province/District :
Mother : Cecil No. 449 E.C.Hertfordshire
Joined : St. John & St. Paul No. 349 E.C. Malta

Initiated
Passed
Raised
11th January 1906
8th March 1906
10th May 1906
 

Past Provincial Grand Chaplain. Joined Lodge of St. John and St. Paul, Malta on the 1st November 1913.


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