The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Sergeant H E Pickering

Photograph by " J Noble"

Sergeant Herbert Edward PICKERING, L/6486, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 31st March 1917, age 31.

Born Lewisham, Kent, son of George Frederick and Alice Pickering.

1909 September, Dover Registration District, Herbert Edward Pickering, married Ellen Louisa Payne, (born 29th November 1888), of 15, Green Street, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire.

Children - George Alfred Pickering, born 15th June 1910;

1911 Census - Prospect Place, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire - Herbert Pickering, head, age 26, married, Soldier, born Battersea, London; Louisa Pickering, wife, age 23, married one year, one child, born St. Ives, Huntingdonshire; George Pickering, son, age 9 months, born Bordon, Hampshire; Martha Allgood, boarder, age 44, widow, general servant, domestic, Private House, born Witton, Huntingdonshire; Minnie Masterton, visitor, age 16, single, housekeeper, domestic, Private House, born St. Ives, Huntingdonshire.

Children - Rose Alice Pickering, born 19th April 1913, baptised 7th May 1913, St Saviour, Battersea, daughter of Herbert Edward, (cab washer), & Ellen Louisa Pickering, 44 Chatham Street; Herbert Edward Pickering, born 9th October 1916.

Enlisted Maidstone, Kent.

(CWGC - Born at Battersea, London. Enlisted 1899).

Buried at Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery, III. M. 26, Arras, France.

This page was last updated on 21-May-2021.