- First Name(s):FrederickSamuel
- Surname:PICKERING
- Service Number:43755
- Rank:
Lance Corporal
- Conflict:WW1
- Service:Army
- Army Sector:Infantry
- Regiment:Wiltshire Regiment
- Battalion:2nd Battalion
- Former Units:Formerly 6163, Army Pay Corps.
- Date of Death:12th November 1918
- Age At Death:34
- Cause of Death:Died of wounds
- Place of Death:Unknown
- Place of Burial:Awoingt British Cemetery, France, Grave III. B. 24.
- Place of Birth:Handsworth, Staffordshire, resident Stourbridge, Worcestershire, enlisted Warwick
- Home Town:Unknown
- Casualty's Relatives:
Son of Mr and Mrs Samuel Pickering, of Wellhead Lane, Perry Barr, Birmingham; husband of Effie Mary Pickering, 12 Pool Furlong, Holy Goss, Clent, Stourbridge
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Formerly School Master, St Mark’s School, Birmingham.
Frederick Pickering enlisted in the army and was sent to the Army Pay Corps and then transferred to the 2nd Battalion of the Wiltshires. After the breaking of the Hindenburg Line at the end of September 1918 the Wiltshires in the 19th Division followed up the German retreat. At no time was German resistance broken and British casualties were many. The enemy decided to make a stand on the River Selle and only a determined effort by sappers to bridge the river during the night before the 24th October attack enabled the infantry to cross. Advance towards Mons continued but Private Frederick Pickering was badly injured on the way and taken to a Casualty Clearing Station near Cambrai. He died on the 12th November, the day after the armistice.
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