War hero.
Born at Winnipeg on 28 May 1915, son of Frank Allen Pickersgill (1879-1920) and Sarah Cornelia Smith (1877-1961), brother of John Whitney Pickersgill, he was educated at Kelvin High School and United College. He then went to Paris to study French, and in 1940 volunteered for a mission with British intelligence behind enemy lines. Captured, he died in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in September 1944.
See also:
Personal Memoirs: The Story of Earl Grey School (1952) by James Dudley McLeod
Birth registration [Unnamed Pickersgill], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
Frank Allen Pickersgill (1879-1920), WikiTree.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 23 July 2023
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