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Personal data

• Name PICKEN
• Initials R
• First name RALPH
• Country England, United Kingdom
• Family Husband of Edith Picken, of New Westminster, British Columbia.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 3 January 1916, Vancouver, British Columbia
• Service number 503319
• Rank Sapper
• Regiment and unit 2nd Tunnelling Coy. Canadian Engineers
• Army - Corps - Division 2nd Canadian Division
• National force C.E.F.

Death

• Wounded He was taken suddenly ill when on duty in the trenches on May 1st, 1916, and was diagnosed as pneumonia at the Field Ambulance. While in an ambulance car, he was severely wounded by shrapnel from an enemy shell that burst on the road close to the car.
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds in the back at n°10 CCS.
• Date of death 2 May 1916
• Died at the age of 35
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery VI - B - 40A

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