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• Name PICKERING
• Initials JW
• First name JOHN WILLIAM
• Place of birth Gosforth
• Country Northumberland, England
• Last residence 1132 Yuill Street, Medicine Hat, Alberta
• Family Son of William and Elizabeth Pickering
• Profession Police Constable
• Extra info Husband of Mary Pickering (nee Tom), of 441, Third St., Medicine Hat, Alberta; two children, Doris and Charles

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 6 October 1915, Medicine Hat, Alberta
• Service number 154913
• Rank Sapper
• Regiment and unit 9th Bn. Canadian Railway Troops
• Army - Corps - Division 1st Canadian Division
• National force C.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Also served with the 1st Pioneer Battalion; to France 9 March 1916; appendicitis April 1917;

Death

• Wounded Passchendaele
• Type of wounds Died of shell wounds in the back, fracture of pelvis, in n°17 CCS
• Date of death 25 October 1917
• Died at the age of 27
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXII - C - 4

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