Photo: Janet Brown
The headstone reads:
In
Loving memory
of
Alfred James Pick
Lieut. 3rd D.L.I. attd. R.A.F.
aged 23 years.
Accidentally killed while flying
at Eastchurch Kent on Dec. 2nd 1918
On active service for 3½ years
with 1st K.O.Y.L.I. in France
and Macedonia and with R.A.F.
in Macedonia and Egypt.
Alfred Pick M.P.S.
Ellen Pick.
He was a Scoutmaster with the 3rd Bedlington Troop.
Simon Glancey has provided the following:
The Morpeth Herald and Reporter, Friday 12/12/1918, had the following article:
LOCAL FLYING OFFICER’S DEATH
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Pick, Bedlington, have received news that their eldest son, Lieut. A. J. Pick, D.L.I., attached R.A.F., was accidentally killed while flying in Kent. He was educated at Morpeth Grammar School, and was a student at Rutherford College. He belonged to the D.U.O.T.C. [Durham University Officer Training Corps?], and received his commission on August 15th 1914. He went to France in May, 1915, and from there to Salonica and Egypt, where he transferred to the R.A.F. 18 months ago. He was aged 23.
He is remembered in Bedlington on B15.02, B15.09, B15.20 and B15.26 page 53, in Morpeth on M17.06 and M17.12 No.42, and in Durham on D47.151 page 76
