Private William Pickering

Army Number: 265327 formerly 2106

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Brother of James Albert Pickering, of 60, Hungerhill Road, Nottingham. Went to France on 25th February 1915. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 17, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.