Driver
S Pickup
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  • Initials
    S
  • Surname
    Pickup
  • Date of Birth
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  • Place of death
  • Date of death
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  • Rank
    Driver
  • Regiment
    Royal Field Artillery

Biography

Driver S Pickup was serving with the 37th Battalion Royal Field Artillery when he passed through Peterborough East Station tea room on 3 July 1916.  He wrote in the visitor’s book:

“Some People love the Thistle

Some People love the Rose
But I think the Flour that makes my Bread
is the sweetest flower that grows”

 

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