BORN HULL 08/09/1893. SON OF MARY HANNAH PICK, WHO LIVED AT SCOTT STREET, 4, NORTON TERRACE, WATERLOO STREET, HULL & COTTINGHAM. BROTHER TO FRED AND MINNIE.
BEFORE ENLISTING IN THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS, WALTER PICK, WORKED FOR MESSRS JOHNSON & JEFFS, CORN AND SEED MERCHANTS, ON HULL HIGH STREET.
HE MARRIED, ELIZABETH WALKER (1890-1977), AT HULL, IN APRIL 1916. HIS WIFE ELIZABETH & SON, WALTER DOUGLAS PICK (1913-1941), LIVED AT 16, RUSSELL TERRACE, BEAN STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. WAS KILLED AT ZONNEBEKE, RESCUING WOUNDED, ON 26/09/1917, AGED 24. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE TYNE COT MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, WHO BECAME ELIZABETH COCKERILL AND MOVED TO ALBERT TERRACE, WELWICK, PATRINGTON.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON ST MARYS CHURCH, LOWGATE ROLL OF HONOUR, HULL; THE RAMC MEMORIAL, WENLOCK BARRACKS & THE HULL BOYS CLUB ROLL OF HONOUR, ROPER STREET, HULL.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 15TH AND 20TH OCTOBER 1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HIS SON DIED AT HOLDERNESS, ON 06/12/1941, AGED 28.
