Military service
Age:
33
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
September 5, 1884
Arkona, Ontario
Enlistment:
May 5, 1916
Stratford, Ontario
Death:
October 26, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Additional information
Son of Mrs. Emily J. Freel, of Winona, Ontario. Graduate of Toronto and Columbia Universities.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Howard Vincent Pickering
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Photo of Howard Vincent Pickering
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Honour Roll
"University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", 1921. -
Memorial Plaque
1914-18 Memorial Plaque, The University Schools, University of Toronto, 371 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ontario. Erected by the U.T.S. Hockey Club, 1919-20. -
War Memorial
Saltfleet Township War Memorial (1922), Highway 8, Stoney Creek, Ontario. -
Inscriptions
Detail of names listed on the Saltfleet Township War Memorial. -
Roll of Honour
"This Roll of Honour has been prepared as a permanent tribute to those men of the teaching profession in Ontario, who enlisted in connection with the Great War." Source: The Roll of Honour of the Ontario Teachers Who Served in the Great War 1914-1918 (The Ryerson Press: Toronto, 1922). The 1914-1918 Roll of Service for Ontario Teachers contains 851 names. 101 died as a result of their military service. The information on this Honour Roll may differ from other sources as it was compiled by the Department of Education in Toronto, Ontario, from "...varied and numerous sources, that mistakes are inevitable." -
Photo of Howard Pickering
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1916. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Photo of Howard Pickering
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement Fourth Edition 1918 published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Badge
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Memorial Card Cover
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Memorial Card
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Cap Insignia
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Family Photo
Howard and his step-father Wm. Wallace Freel, his Mother Emily Jane Freel and his step-sister Evelyn Helen Freel -
Telegram
Telegram Received from the War Department -
Silver Cross
Silver Cross Lieut. Pickering was killed at Passchendaele Oct. 26, 1917 -
Stained Glass Window
This stained glass memorial is housed in the former Stratford normal school, now Stratford-Perth Museum, 270 Water Street, Stratford, Ontario. It was erected by students and staff in memory of one teacher, Howard V. Pickering and several students killed during the First World War. [front/devant] THIS WINDOW IS ERECTED IN MEMORY OF HOWARD V. PICKERING, ENGLISH MASTER AND THE STUDENTS OF THIS SCHOOL WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR IN DEFENCE OF JUSTICE AND LIBERTY. http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/nic-inm/sm-rm/mdsr-rdr-eng.asp?PID=3032 -
Inscription on Menin Gate
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo de Menin Gate
Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Howard Vincent Pickering
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Memorial
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Howard Vincent Pickering
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Howard Vincent Pickering
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Howard Vincent Pickering
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Howard Vincent Pickering
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Howard Vincent Pickering
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Howard Vincent Pickering
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Howard Vincent Pickering
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Howard Vincent Pickering
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Howard Vincent Pickering
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 309 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Service record(s)
Digitized personnel record available through Library and Archives Canada.
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