Pickles,+Thomas+Henry

Thomas Henry Pickles

Born 1895 in Oxenhope he was killed in the last month of the war on 19 - 10 -1918. He served as a Rifleman with the Kongs Royal Rifle Corps. 2 nd Batallion. Service number A/203955 Thomas is buried at Cross Roads Cemetery at FONTAINE- AU- BOIS. Grave Ref. III. B. 6 Every soldier buried here died between 1st October 1918 and Armistice.

He was the son ot Thomas (born 1856 ) and Mary Ann ( born 1856 at Pateley Bridge ). The family lived at Isle Lane (records say Haworth but more likely Oxenhope as in the 1901 census they live in Oxenhope and all their several children were born in Oxenhope)

Thomas Snr. was a Stone Quarryman. Most of the Pickles family in Oxenhope at this time appear to have been quarrymen, including brothers to Thomas Snr. , John and Jonas who were stone merchants. James R. Pickles( born 1898 ) who is on the Oxenhope list of those who served was related to this family.