Bernard Francis Pilgrim
He was a clerk in 1911
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Bernard Francis was born in 1896 the son of Samuel a railway signalman who died in 1899 and Naomi Pilgrim (née Covel).
His father was born in 1854 at Marston Moreteyne Bedfordshire, his mother at Lessingham Lincolnshire in 1857. They were married in 1883 at Nottingham and had nine children one of whom died in infancy. Bernard’s surviving siblings, all born in Lenton, were Walter b.1879, Minnie b.1881, Ernest b.1884, Lillian b.1889, Hilda b.1892, Percy b.1894, Harold b.1895 and Florence b.1899.
The family lived at 23 Chippendale Street, Lenton, Nottingham in 1891, 1901 and 1911 .
In the 1911 census the family are livng at 23 Chippendale Street, Lenton, Naomi Pilgrims 54 yrs a widow is living with her children, Ernesy 24 yrs a railway clerk Lillian 21 yrs a sewing machinist, Hilda 18 yrs a sewing machinist, Percy 17 yrs printing worker, Harold 15 yrs a clerk, Bernard 14 yrs a clerk, Florence 11 yrs a scholar
Bernard Francis Pilgrim enlisted at Nottingham he served with the 12th battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, he landed in France on 24th July 1915 he died of wounds on 24th March 1918, having no known grave he is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial Panel 61 to 64
Obituary published in the Nottingham Evening Post dated 24th March 1919 :-
“PILGRIM. – In loving memory of Rfn. Francis Bernard Pilgrim, [sic] 12th K.R.R., killed in action March 24th, 1918. – Sadly missed by his mother, brothers, sisters.”
Obituary courtesy of Jim Grundy and his facebook pages Small Town Great War Hucknall 1914-1918
Photo of Bernard Francis Pilgrim
Pozieres Memorial, France, courtesy of the cwgc