Lieutenant-Colonel E. Pearson

&
Major A.L. Tosland

Ontario Regiment

Both appointments come in the nature of promotions to the Oshawa Military Officers who have had many years of experience in Military Work, and their many friends in Oshawa wish them the best of success in their new posts.

(Oshawa Daily Times, 31 Dec 1940)

Born in Winchester, Hampshire, England on 18 September 1897, Edwin Pearson was a General Motors office clerk in Oshawa, Ontario when he enlisted in the 116th Battalion under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Sam Sharpe in January 1916. After the battalion deployed to France in February 1917, Pearson rose through the NCO ranks. A year later he was recommended for a commission and rejoined the 116th as a lieutenant in September 1918. Twenty years later he was appointing commanding officer of the militia regiment which perpetuated the 116th.

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