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Stoker George Charles Pickett
Royal Naval Reserve HMS Arbutus
from:27, Well Street, Hafod, Swansea
(d.15th Dec 1917)
George Pickett is one of eleven men named on the memorial at the entrance of his place of work, Hafod Isha Nickel & Cobalt Works, Swansea. He was killed on 15 December 1917, the date that the ship he was serving on, HMS Arbutus (K86) a Flower-class corvette, was torpedoed by UB.65 off the Irish coast. The ship sank during towing on the 16th.