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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Pickford Henry
|Army number=4457962
|Rank=Pte
|Age=0
|Unit=Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date, Trf Black Watch 1/2/1940, Posted 1 TS, Posted ? Bn Black Watch, Discharged KRs 1940 Para 390 (xvi) 13/1/46.
|Prisoner of War=20B, 6953
|Home address=139, Durham Rd. Spennymoor
|Source table=1TS
}}

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 |Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
 |Date of birth=24/10/1918 at Spennymoor, County Durham.  Mother's maiden surname Hepple.
-|Age=(At the time of his death)
+|Age=62 at the time of his death.
-|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date, but probably Autumn 1939 .  Posted probably to the 9th Battalion DLI.  Posted probably to the 12th Battalion DLI on embodiment - September 1939.  Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940 and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish.  Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France.  Captured at Ficheux 20/5/1940 and made a Prisoner of War (capture card dated 9/6/1940).  Repatriated to the UK in 1945.  Posted ? Battalion Black Watch.  Discharged under King's Regulations 1940 Para 390 (xvi) on 13/1/46.
+|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date, but probably Autumn 1939.  Posted probably to the 9th Battalion DLI.  Posted probably to the 12th Battalion DLI on embodiment - 1st September 1939.  Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940 and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish.  Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France.  Captured at Ficheux 20/5/1940 and made a Prisoner of War (capture card was dated 9/6/1940).  Repatriated to the UK in 1945.  Posted ? Battalion Black Watch.  Discharged under King's Regulations 1940 Para 390 (xvi) on 13/1/46.
-|Company/Battery= Not yet known.
+|Company/Battery=HQ Company.
 |Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
-|Task or role=Not yet known.
+|Task or role=Not yet known, but possibly Rifleman.
 |Joined Brigade=1/9/1939.
 |Promotions=None known.
 |Wounded=Not so far as is known.
-|Prisoner of War=Camp Number initially Stalag XXA, then Stalag XXB from 7/10/1941. Prisoner Number 6953.
+|Prisoner of War=Camp Number initially Stalag XXA, then Stalag XXB from 7/10/1941. Prisoner of War Number 6953.
 |Died/Killed in action=Died April 1981 aged 62.
 |Home address=Worked as a heavy labourer in a Brickworks.  1939 General Register showed he lived at 139, Durham Rd. Spennymoor, with his Father - William Arthur Pickford and his Mother Esther M Pickford - nee Hepple.  In the Register entry he is not shown as being in the Forces so he probably enlisted in Autumn 1939 - this correlates with his Regimental Number.  Married Maria Szoltun in 1947.

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 |Task or role=Not yet known.
 |Joined Brigade=1/9/1939.
 |Wounded=Not so far as is known.
 |Prisoner of War=Camp Number initially Stalag XXA, then Stalag XXB from 7/10/1941. Prisoner Number 6953.
 |Died/Killed in action=Died April 1981 aged 62.
-|Home address=Worked as a heavy labourer in a Brickworks.  1939 General Register showed he lived at 139, Durham Rd. Spennymoor, with his Father - William Arthur Pickford and his Mother Esther M Pickford - nee Hepple.  In the Register entry he is not shown as being in the Forces so he probably enlisted in Autumn 1939.  Married Maria Szoltun in 1947.
+|Home address=Worked as a heavy labourer in a Brickworks.  1939 General Register showed he lived at 139, Durham Rd. Spennymoor, with his Father - William Arthur Pickford and his Mother Esther M Pickford - nee Hepple.  In the Register entry he is not shown as being in the Forces so he probably enlisted in Autumn 1939 - this correlates with his Regimental Number.  Married Maria Szoltun in 1947.
 |Image Name=99151584_10217667033447846_1294759213259554816_o.jpg
 |Image Title=Private Henry PICKFORD 1st Tyneside Scottish.
 |Source table=1TS
 }}

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 |Company/Battery= Not yet known.
 |Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
 |Wounded=Not so far as is known.
 |Prisoner of War=Camp Number initially Stalag XXA, then Stalag XXB from 7/10/1941. Prisoner Number 6953.

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 |Died/Killed in action=Died April 1981 aged 62.
 |Home address=Worked as a heavy labourer in a Brickworks.  1939 General Register showed he lived at 139, Durham Rd. Spennymoor, with his Father - William Arthur Pickford and his Mother Esther M Pickford - nee Hepple.  In the Register entry he is not shown as being in the Forces so he probably enlisted in Autumn 1939.  Married Maria Szoltun in 1947.
 |Source table=1TS
 }}

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 |Army number=4457962
 |Rank=Private.
-|Decorations=None known beyong Service Awards.
+|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
 |Date of birth=24/10/1918 at Spennymoor, County Durham.  Mother's maiden surname Hepple.
 |Age=(At the time of his death)
-|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date, but probably Summer 1939.  Posted probably to the 9th Battalion DLI.  Posted probably to the 12th Battalion DLI on embodiment - September 1939.  Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940 and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish.  Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France.  Captured at Ficheux 20/5/1940 and made a Prisoner of War (capture card dated 9/6/1940).  Repatriated to the UK in 1945.  Posted ? Battalion Black Watch.  Discharged under King's Regulations 1940 Para 390 (xvi) on 13/1/46.
+|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date, but probably Autumn 1939 .  Posted probably to the 9th Battalion DLI.  Posted probably to the 12th Battalion DLI on embodiment - September 1939.  Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940 and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish.  Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France.  Captured at Ficheux 20/5/1940 and made a Prisoner of War (capture card dated 9/6/1940).  Repatriated to the UK in 1945.  Posted ? Battalion Black Watch.  Discharged under King's Regulations 1940 Para 390 (xvi) on 13/1/46.
 |Company/Battery= Not yet known.
 |Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
 |Wounded=Not so far as is known.
 |Prisoner of War=Camp Number initially Stalag XXA, then Stalag XXB from 7/10/1941. Prisoner Number 6953.
-|Died/Killed in action=
+|Died/Killed in action=Died April 1981 aged 62.
-|Home address=139, Durham Rd. Spennymoor.  Father - William Arthur Pickford.
+|Home address=Worked as a heavy labourer in a Brickworks.  1939 General Register showed he lived at 139, Durham Rd. Spennymoor, with his Father - William Arthur Pickford and his Mother Esther M Pickford - nee Hepple.  In the Register entry he is not shown as being in the Forces so he probably enlisted in Autumn 1939.  Married Maria Szoltun in 1947.
 |Source table=1TS
 }}