BORN HULL 1895. SON OF THOMAS WORTLEY PICK & SUSAN HARRIET PICK – 3 LUKE’S TERRACE, CARLTON STREET, HESSLE ROAD. HE LIVED WITH HIS SISTER AND BROTHER IN LAW AT 10 SEDMAN’S AVENUE, WITTY STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 09/12/1914. SERVED WITH THE 11TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. DIED OF WOUNDS ON 8/06/1916, AGED 21. UNMARRIED. HIS MEDALS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, THOMAS.
NOTE: HE IS REFERRED TO AS STEVEN PICK IN LOCALLY, BUT RECORDED AS SYDNEY PICK IN CWGC RECORDS.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 13/06/1916, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
SYDNEY’S OLDER BROTHER, ARTHUR EDWIN PICK WAS KILLED ON THE SOMME, TWO WEEKS LATER.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE SYDNEY PICK 11/1125. Born in 1895, Sydney was one of eight children to Thomas and Susan Pick of 3 Lukes Terrace, Carlton Street, Hessle Road, Hull. A General Labourer before the war, he enlisted at City Hall on 9th December 1914 and joined the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Tradesmen’, Hull Pals. It would appear that strict military discipline and Sydney were not comfortable bedfellows for he was three times docked pay during training for overstaying on a pass, losing the best part of two months money in the process. After serving in Egypt over Christmas 1915, the Pals arrived on the Western Front the following March, and though their sector around Engelbelmer was considered a ‘quiet’ part of the line, the day by day tit-for-tat of trench warfare slowly took its toll. Sydney was wounded in the buttocks on 6th June 1916 and evacuated to 29th Casualty Clearing Station but died of wounds on the 8th. Sydney Pick is buried at Gezaincourt Communal Cemetery Extension; he was 21 years old.
