Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Coalville Times article - Friday August 16th, 1918

LOCAL CASUALTIES

Rev. L. H. Pearson, Vicar of Rothley, formerly headmaster of Market Bosworth Grammar School, has received news that his second son, Lieutenant Lewis Howel Pearson, Leicestershire Regiment, is reported missing. It appears that the gallant young officer (who had been awarded the Croix de Guerre with Palm) was sent on patrol duty with two men, and when last seen they were fighting, greatly outnumbered. He has been wounded three times. Before enlisting as a private in the Leicesters, when war broke out, Lieut. Pearson was a scholar of Emmanuel College.

Research undertaken and submitted by Andy Murby 21/9/2018