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Auction: 21102 - Orders, Decorations and Medals e-Auction 3
Lot: 341

Three: Gunner H. Pickard, Royal Field Artillery

British War and Victory Medals (169293 Gnr. H. Pickard. R.A.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (Herbert Pickard), contact marks, very fine (3)

Herbert Pickard was born at Weeton, Yorkshire in 1879. He married Jane Annie Stork in Otley on 17 February 1903 and worked as a Gardener in Leeds, having four children between 4 February 1905 and 15 July 1915. This last child might explain his late enlistment with 3/4 West Riding (Howitzer) Brigade on 16 November 1916 at Keighley.
Pickard served in France on 11 October 1916 before transferring to Salonica on 17 January 1917. He remained there until 2 July before being posted to Egypt where he remained until 8 August 1919. Demobilised at Catterick 25 December 1918; sold together with copied M.I.C., service records and handwritten notes.

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£55

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£40