Pickard, Ernest William

PICKARD,

ERNEST WILLIAM

BORN 19 SEPTEMBER 1891

Ernest William Pickard was

born on 19 September 1891 in Caerleon Monmouthshire, son of William Jasper Pickard (b 1860), and Ellen Pickard (b 1857). Both parents were born in Northam, Devon and married in 1884.

The 1901 census shows Ernest and his mother and father living at 17 The Hard, Portsmouth with daughter Eleanor Mabel Finley, (b 1888 in Newport, Monmouthshire) and son Reginald Gilbert (b 1889 in Newport, Monmouthshire).

He joined form I of the school on 15 September 1904, aged 12 and left form IVB on 17 December 1907. His father was the manager of the National Provincial Bank Stokes Croft, Bristol and the family lived at 95 Effingham Road, St Andrews.

He joined the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), 10th Battalion, as a Private.

He died on 14 September 1918, aged 27. He is remembered with Honour at the British Cemetery, Vis-en-Artois Memorial, near Arras, France.

Reginald Gilbert Pickard started work at his father’s bank in 1905. He moved through several branches and finally worked in the branch in Swansea.

During the war, he joined the Welsh regiment as a second Lieutenant. He died of wounds received in action in France on 2 March 1917, aged 28.

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