Alfred Astley Pearson

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

Military career Pearson was commissioned a second lieutenant on 8 February 1870, promoted to lieutenant on 28 October 1871, to captain on 8 February 1882, and to major on 1 July 1887. He commanded the 24th (Baluchistan) Regiment of Bombay Infantry (later 124th Duchess of Connaught's Own Baluchistan Infantry) and 1st Battalion 10th Baluch Regiment (later 6th Battalion The Baloch Regiment) from 1894 to 1902. 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. He received the brevet rank of colonel on 8 February 1900, and was appointed as temporary assistant adjutant-general (probably in Poona, in the Bombay Command) on 7 July 1900. In 1902 he officiated as Colonel on the Staff in Cawnpore. He was made Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1911 Coronation Honours. Sir Alfred was the Colonel of 124th Duchess of Connaught's Own Baluchistan Infantry.