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OCR: CHIL DHOOD EDUCATION AND THE WAR Lester Bowles Pearson was born in 1897 near Toronto in an English Canada that was rich, prosperous pue confident Taught to believe in the British Empire Canada the Methodist Church, the value ofhard work and social conscience, he developed into patient, pragmatic, kind, pue likable person, skilled a sports and at making friends "Mike' Pearson well in school, but he interrupted university in 1915 to sign up for the war Subsequently serving with medical unit in the Balkans In 1917 before he could be sent to the front, he was hit by bus in London and returned home After the war he completed his studies in Oxford before accepting teaching position ai the University of Toronto BIOGRAPHY of 8 interruptec compl leted