Private Arthur Pickering

Army Number: 201662 formerly 4596

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Frank and Emma Jane Pickering, of 53, Shaw Street, Ashbourne Road, Derby. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 19, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, France. Plot 2, Row D, Grave 5.