BORN HULL JUNE 1893. SON OF CHARLES JOHN PICKERING (1853-1901) & ELLEN COLLIER COLLISHAW (1851-1937), AT 40, EAST PARK AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN, AND FIVE SISTERS. A PAINTER AND DECORATER LIVING AT 40, EAST PARK AVENUE, HULL (1911 CENSUS).
HE ENLISTED IN HULL SERVED AS PRIVATE, 18266, 1ST EAST RIDING YEOMANRY. HE DIED AT SEA, ON 15/04/1917, AGED 24. BURIED AT MIKRA BRITISH CEMETERY, KALAMARIA, GREECE. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOWED MOTHER, ELLEN.
NAMED ON SUTTON VILLAGE MEMORIAL.
On 15th April 1917, HMT Arcadian was sunk off Melos in the Aegean Sea. Nineteen men of the draft of 43 ERY men destined to join the 1/1st ERY in Palestine were among those drowned. The regiment’s war diary notes 2nd Lt. (Richard Duncan) Ullyott and 13 men arriving on May 9th, with 19 reported drowned. In addition, Robert Bell was a former ERY man, then attached to the Lincolnshire Yeomanry and Harry Matthews may also have been with the ERY, though the evidence is ambiguous. So the total losses for the regiment on this occasion may have been 21. Though there were a couple of experienced NCOs in this group, the majority were young recruits.
