Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Francis Robert Pickford
In memory of:
Private Francis Robert Pickford
September 29, 1917
Military Service
669328
26
Army
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Additional Information
July 13, 1891
Halifax, Nova Scotia
January 28, 1916
Toronto, Ontario
Son of Charles S. and Anna Barbara Pickford, of Grand Pre, Nova Scotia.
Commemorated on Page 309 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
BEEHIVE CEMETERY (WILLERVAL)
Pas de Calais, France
C. 3.
Willerval is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 10 kilometres north-east of Arras. Beehive Cemetery is one kilometre north of the village and 600 metres by the footpath from the west side of the D50E road to Mericourt in a place called Lorgette. The cemetery owes its name to a German machine gun emplacement known to the British troops as The Beehive. The cemetery covers an area of 431 square yards. It is enclosed by a concrete curb and a thorn hedge and planted with maples. It stands among cornfields, on the crest of a low ridge, with considerable views of the Vimy battlefield.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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