Lance Bombardier 163772 Ernest PICKERING

Lance Bombardier 163772 Ernest Pickering{gallery}L/Bombardier E Pickering{/gallery}B Battery, 70th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Killed in action in France and Flanders, 11 April 1918, aged 35

• Buried: Faubourg D’Amiens Cemetery, Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France. Grave VI.E.24
  
• Awarded South African Campaign, British War and Victory Medals
• Son of William and Ann Pickering.  watchmakers of 74 and 76 Long Street, Atherstone
  
• Husband of Annie M Pickering [nee Drakeford]. Married Jul Qtr 1911
• NNWFHS Memorial: Atherstone

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for L/Bombardier Pickering
• NNWFHS Atherstone War Memorial Page
• Faubourg D’Amiens Cemetery
• Royal Field Artillery

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born Oct Qtr 1883 at Atherstone
• Lived at Market Place, Atherstone
  
• Enlisted in 1900 as a regular solider and served in South Africa and India
  
• Employed as a postman [1911]