BORN GRANTHAM, LINCS 1887. ELDEST SON OF THOMAS WORTLEY PICK & SUSAN HARRIET PICK, WHO LIVED AT 22, DALTRY STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS); 64, ETON STREET (1911 CENSUS) AND 3 LUKES TERRACE, CARLTON STREET, HULL. HE WAS ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN,
ARTHUR WORKED AS A GENERAL LABOURER. HE MARRIED AT HULL, IN 1911. HIS WIFE, HOPE EMPSON (BORN 2/9/1881) & THREE SONS, LIVED AT 8, DUKE’S TERRACE, MARMADUKE STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL AND AND 10, REDMIRE AVENUE, WITTY STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY, ON 14/09/1914. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 12656, 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 20/06/1916, AGED 29. BURIED AT FRICOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, ON THE SOMME.
HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, PRIVATE, SYDNEY PICK, 11TH EYR, HAD BEEN KILLED ON THE SOMME TWO WEEKS EARLIER, AGED 21.
ARTHUR’S ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, HOPE, WHO LATER REMARRIED. SHE WAS AWARDED A WEEKLY WAR PENSION FROM 01/01/1917, OF 20 SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE, FOR HERSELF AND THREE CHILDREN. ELIZABETH WARDLE BECAME GUARDIAN OF THE THREE BOYS, AT 10, REDMIRE AVENUE, WITTY STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE WITTY STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 30 August 1916)
NB: THOMAS PICK – 22 LUCYS PLACE, PORTER STREET, HULL.
