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Surname: PICKLES
Forename(s): Edmondson
Place of Birth: Barnoldswick, Yorkshire
Service No: 93697
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Northumberland Fusiliers
Battalion / Unit: 2nd Battalion
Division: division unknown
Age: ---
Date of Death: 1920-08-07
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: XIX. H. 11.
CWGC Cemetery: BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: BARNOLDSWICK, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Edmondson Pickles was the son of Edmondson and Louisa Pickles, née Coke and brother of Private John Pickles (18902) (q.v.). Their father was born at either Barrowford or Blacko, Lancashire and mother at Plymouth, Devon.
1901 Barnoldswick, Yorkshire Census: Clough Fold - Edmondson Pickles, aged 6 months, born Barnoldswick, son of Louisa Pickles, widow.
1911 Barnoldswick, Yorkshire Census: 8, Stuart Street - Edmondson Pickles, aged 10 years, born Barnoldswick, son of Louisa and stepson of John McGarragin. [Louisa married John in 1904.]
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte E. Pickles, 93697, Northd Fus. G.S.M. & Clasp. Iraq.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte Edmondson Pickles, 93697, 2nd Bn North'd Fus. Date and Place of Death: 26.7.20. [sic] Mosul. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Sister - Florrie. £9 17s. 5d. ½ Brother - Thomas McGorrigan. £9 17s. 4d. [The above date of death is also given in two of the three CWGC Grave Registration Reports.]
A short biography of Edmondson is included in: ‘Barnoldswick – A small Town’s part in conflicts 1800 to 2014’ by Peter Ian Thompson (2014).
Data Source: Craven Herald Article
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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Private Edmondson PICKLES
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Northumberland Fusiliers
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20 August 1920
BARNOLDSWICK SOLDIER’S DEATH IN MESOPOTAMIA
The death occurred on August 7th, in Mesopotamia, of Private Edmondson Pickles, Northumberland Fusiliers, from heart failure. The sad news was conveyed in a letter from the War Office to his relatives in Barnoldswick last week end. Private Pickles, who would have been 20 years of age next month, was a son of the late Mr. Edmondson Pickles. He enlisted a year ago, and went out to join the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force at Basra six weeks before Christmas. In a letter to his sister, received the Thursday before his death, he stated that he was in the best of health, having had a successful recovery from malaria, and that he was expecting being transferred to India in October. His elder brother, Private Jack Pickles, was killed in France in May, 1917.
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