Baden Powell Pickell

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

845102

Unit at enlistment:

140th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

September 26th, 1918

Cemetery:

Queant Communal Cemetery British Extension - Pas de Calais, France - B.28.

Commemorated at:

Thedford, Ontario, War Memorial

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Lambton

Birth city:

Thedford

Next of kin address:

Thedford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Automobile Mechanic

Religious denominations:

Presbyterian

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Circumstances of service: Killed

Circumstances of Casualty: Killed in Action. While in a funk hole in a trench South East of Inchy-en-Artois prior to an attack, he was hit in the head by a fragment of an enemy shell and instantly killed.

BX October 22, 1918

Private Baden Powell Pickell Reported Killed in Action

Constable Pickell of the Brantford police force received word that his son, Private Baden Powell Pickell had been killed in action. He enlisted with the 149th Battalion of London, Ont., at the age of 17 and went through the thickest of the fighting without a scratch until the last battle in which he fell. This was the only son left Constable Pickell. Some four years ago, he had one son shot in Detroit by a burglar, while in the discharge of his duty as a police officer.