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235984 Lt. Maurice Stanley Craike-Pickering MC. 25th Machine Gun Battalion Machine Gun Corp (d.14th April 1918) My Great Great Uncle, Lieutenant Maurice Stanley Craike-Pickering MC. was son of Seth Pickering and his wife Mary Craike of Beverley East Yorkshire. He was born at Beverley in 1886 and educated at Beverley Grammar School. In 1901 he began work as an apprentice Cabinet Maker to his father who was a cabinet maker and shopkeeper in Beverley. He was Initiated into Constitutional Lodge No 294 Province of Yorkshire North and East Ridings and was a Joining Member of Maguncor Lodge. Later he became a Rubber Planter in Dutch Borneo.
Commissioned and Gazetted as 2nd Lieutenant 13th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry 7th April 1915; transferred to the Machine Gun Corps 26th November 1915; served with the Expeditionary force in France and Flanders from March 1916. He was awarded the Military Cross (London Gazette 14th November 1916) "For conspicuous gallantry in action. with his machine gun with great courage and determination, repulsing an enemy counter-attack at a critical time".
The husband of Jean Craike-Pickering of 29 Braidburn Court, Edinburgh, he was wounded at the First Battle of the Somme on the 15th September 1916. He died of his wounds in the Herbert Samuelson Hospital Brighton on the 14th April 1918 aged 32. Remembered with Honour in Brighton and Preston Cemetery. Sussex.
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223853 Pte. Cyril Howard Nicholson CdG. 25th Btn. Machine Gun Corps (d.12th Oct 1918) Cyril H. Nicholson is buried in Terlincthun Cemetery, Wimille, France. He died in hospital at Charleville after being taken prisoner on 9th April 1918. We only have a couple of letters from friends to his family, his tiny diary of imprisonment and a framed piece of Croix de Guerre ribbon (Belgian).
There is a story that he met his brother Reginald Willam Nicholson on the battlefield. This must have been very emotional as Reginald had emigrated to Australia in 1905/6. He enlisted at St. Kilda on 17th August 1914, Number 940, Australian Imperial Force, 2FAB. I do not know what his progress to France/Belgium was, except that he sailed on HMS Shropshire. Reginald survived to return to his parents' home in Tarbock Road, Huyton, and remained single, dying at his cousin's house in October 1960, age 73. He was a very lovely man, a great uncle and I'm sure Cyril was the same, if only we had had the chance to know him.
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217680 Pte. George Brighton 25th Battalion Machine Gun Corps (d.3rd Nov 1918)  My Great Grandfather George Brighton joined the Machine Gun Corps in July 1918. He was sent for training in machine gunnery before being sent overseas. He would not have reached France until early October 1918, He was serving with the 25th Battalion - the machine gun element of the 25th Division. On the day of his death, the battalion was preparing for a major set-piece battle - the crossing of the river Sambre, being one of the final actions of the war. He died of his wounds, and was buried at Pommereuil. Another man in his unit, S A Bowden, No 171853 was killed on the same day and is buried a very short distance away at Landrecies. My guess is that they were both victims of shelling. My great grandfather probably made it back as far as Pommereuil where there was a Casualty Clearing Station, but died before he could be moved to a hospital. George died on the 3rd November 1918 aged 26yrs; He left a wife and two young daughters.
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209291 Pte. Arthur George Pittman 25th Btn. Machine Gun Corps (d.13th Oct 1918) Arthur Pittman was my Great Uncle, laid to rest in Highland Cemetary Le Cateau, France.
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