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Otago Witness, Issue 3828, 26 July 1927, Page 72

A detachment of Scots Guards and a representative of the Ulster Rifles attended the funeral at Streathham of Joseph Pikeman DC M- M.M. Although sintering from double pneumonia. Pikeman had continued at his work, and at the inquest his conduct was described bv Mr Ingleby Gddie, the coroner, as “an amazing example of British pluck. He was brave in the war, and carried his bravery into private life.” The coffin was borne on a lorry provided by the War Office. Among the mourners was Pikemans old regimental sergeant-major, who said that Pikeman was the bravest man he ever knew. “We went right through the war together, and I never saw him afraid. I was living within a stone’s throw of him; but, although I had been searching for him ever since the war ended, I did not discover his wheicabou's .until after he was dead.”