Maurice Lorain Pears, CMG (c.1872 - 20 October 1916) was a British Army officer who acted as the Commanding Officer of the 17th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, during the first half of World War I. Pears was the eldest son of M.E.
[1] Pears joined the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and saw service in the Tirah campaign as a Lieutenant.
[3] Pears served with his regiment through the Second Boer War in South Africa.
[6] At the time of the outbreak of the First World War, Pears was in East Africa but returned to the UK.
[1][7] The battalion was trained in Hull and on the East Yorkshire Coast before moving to France as part of the 32nd Division[8] on the 20th November 1915.