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Name: PICKFORD, Walter Murray
Nee: bro of Hugh Stirling Gee Pickford and William George Edward Pickford
Birth Date: 1909 Wallasey
Death Date: 21 Aug 1940 at sea, on SS Anglo-Saxon sunk by enemy action
First Date: 1935
Profession: Asst. Inspector, Kenya Police in 1939, appointed 1936. Originally 2nd Grade Asst. Insp. 1935. Railway & Harbour Police
Area: Mombasa, Kericho
Book Reference: Staff 39
War Service: merchant seaman in WW2
General Information:
Blue Book 1938 appt. 15.8.1935
UK Merchant Seamen Deaths (Ancestry)
CWGC commemorated on Tower Hill Memorial
His death was on SS Anglo-Saxon (Convoy OB 195) sunk by German Cruiser 'Widder' 800 miles west of the Canary Islands on passage from Newport, South Wales to Bahia Blanca, Argentina carrying coal.