Alfred Astley Pearson

General Sir Alfred Astley Pearson KCB (5 June 1850 – 26 November 1937) was a British Indian Army officer.

Promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 8 February 1896, he led his battalion that year to British East Africa to suppress a rebellion in areas now forming Kenya.

[4] He received the brevet rank of colonel on 8 February 1900,[5] and was appointed as temporary assistant adjutant-general (probably in Poona, in the Bombay Command) on 7 July 1900.

[7] He was made Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1911 Coronation Honours.

[8] Sir Alfred was the Colonel of 124th Duchess of Connaught's Own Baluchistan Infantry.

24th (Baluchistan) (Duchess of Connaught's Own) Regiment of Bombay Infantry. Lieutenant Colonel Alfred A Pearson (centre) commanding. Quetta, 1896.