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Sgt. Gordon Maitland Pickford

British Army 49th (West Riding) Recce Regt. C Sqn. Reconnaissance Corps

from:Egham, Surrey

(d.16th August 1944)

Sergeant Gordon Pickford served with C Squadron, 49th (West Riding) Regiment, Reconnaissance Corps. Gordon was the son of Frederick Albert and Agnes Mary Pickford and husband of Ivy Alice Winifred Pickford. He was killed in action on the 16th August 1944, I believe at the Battle of Falaise Pocket. He is buried at Bayeux War Cemetery. As a Grenadier Guard he blew the Silver Bugle at the Menin Gate, Ypres in 1929. .



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