Staff Sergeant Edwin Pickford

Staff Sergeant Edwin Pickford, son of James A and Caroline Pickford, of Gorton, Manchester, originally enlisted in the Cheshire Regiment. He later transferred to serve as a Glider pilot with G-Squadron, 1st Wing, Glider Pilot Regiment. He took part in the Glider insertion to the Battle of Arnhem, during Op Market Garden.

Staff Sergeant Pickford died of wounds on 27 September 1944, aged 25 years old. He was given an initial Field Burial in the temporary British cemetery beside Sophiaweg, at Nijmegen, before being re-interred later at Jonkerbos War Cemetery, near Nijmegen.

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