Corporal 240449 David Pickavance
Regiment/Unit: South Lancashire Regiment - 1st/5th Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Theatre of War First Served: (1) France
Date Entered Therein: 13/02/1915
Previous Reg/Num: 2160, S Lancs Regt.
Age at death: 32
Date of death: 30th of November 1917
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Cambrai Memorial Louverval - Panel 7.
BMD details:
Marriage: 3rd Qtr 1904. David Pickavance to Elizabeth Chadwick at Prescot, Lancashire. Vol 8b - Page 1146.
Census details:
1891 - 6 years old David, widowed mother Elizabeth (35) and sister Jane (6 mths) are boarding at 62 back Grove Street, St Helens with the Bate family. 1901 - 16 years old 'Sheet Glass Worker' David is living at 91 Grove Street, St Helens with widowed mother Elizabeth (45). 1911 - Sees 26 years old 'Glass drawer - Labourer' David living at 5 York Place, St Helens with wife Elizabeth (25) and four children: Jane (6), Daniel (4), Mary Elizabeth (3), William (1). Transcribed as DANIEL in the 1911 census.
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[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/240449DavidPickavance.jpg[/pic][caption]Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929[/caption]
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[caption]The panel on the Cambrai Memorial bearing the inscription for
Corporal David Pickavance
(Photograph courtesy of Jeff Keenan)[/caption]
