Abraham PECKNOLD
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- Alfred Abraham (k/a Abraham) PECKNOLD. Major Royal Irish Rifles.
Born24 March 1854 to Henry William and Eliza Pecknold, nee Gallagher.
Husband of Margaret Graham Murdoch Sharcott who he married 1881 and died in 1886 and Martha Maud Lynes who he married 28 February 1888
London Gazette dated 12 June 1894
Sergeant-Major Abraham Pecknold to be Quartermaster, Royal Irish Rifles with the honorary rank of Lieutenant, dated 13th June, 1894.
London Gazette dated 14 June 1904.
Quartermaster and Honorary Lieutenant A. Pecknold, The Royal Irish Rifles, is granted the
honorary rank of Captain. Dated 13th June 1904.
London Gazette dated 15 June 1909
Quartermaster and Honorary Captain Abraham Pecknold, The Royal Irish Rifles, is granted the honorary rank of Major. Dated 13th June 1909
London Gazette dated 29 March 1910
Quartermaster and Honorary Major Abraham Pecknold is placed on retired pay. Dated 24th March, 1910
Died at Greenshields Canada 13 January 1919. At rest in Wainwright Cemetery Alberta Canada.
Commemorated on a family Memorial at Movilla Cemetery Newtownards County Down, Northern Ireland.
