Richard Pickard

Evie Godfrey

One of the 48 men who lost their lives on 1st July 1916, the First Day of the Battle of the Somme was Richard Pickard. Richard was born in Thornhill Lees in 1894. His mother was Elizabeth Pickard, born in Thornhill Lees in 1868 and died in 1938; she also had a daughter, Martha Ann Pickard, born in 1888. Elizabeth … Read More