Battery Roll of Honour

Those of the Old Leek Battery who did not return home:-

Cpl H Bailey (MM)*, Gnr C O Ball*, Sgt G Bestwick*, Gnr T Cornes, Bdr H Crabtree*, Gnr A Danby, Dvr J Dean, Dvr W Doodson, Gnr S Eccles, Gnr F Gibson, Gnr J T James, Gnr P Kemp, Gnr W Lavery (DCM), Sgt R C Lawrence (MM), Lt G Lewthwaite (MC)*, Bdr R Marshall, Lt B Nicholson*, Gnr J Phillips*, Sgt P Pickford* (MM), Cpl C Prime (MM)*, Gnr A Rowley, Gnr H Scott, Cpl G Smith, Sgt W Stevenson, Cpl T Watson

*Denotes listed on the Nicholson War Memorial, the remainder will be listed on other local village memorials from outside the immediate Leek District.

Sgt Percy Pickford M.M.

Many thanks to the family of Percy Pickford for sharing this other image and the note and letter received from the King.