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Portsmouth: Portsmouth Naval Memorial (Hampshire)

Panel 72

 

Information from the CWGC database:

 

Commander Erlysman Patrick Hamilton Pinckney, Royal Navy (H.M.S. Hannibal); died 23 October 1943, aged 41; awards: Mentioned in Despatches; name recorded on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial (Panel 72, Column 3.); son of Erlysman Charles and Agnes Ponsonby Pinckney, of Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire; [HMS Hannibal was a shore establishment (naval base), commissioned at Algiers in 1943, paid off in 1945]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2495407/PINCKNEY,%20E...

 

According to an online genealogy, Commander Pinckney was born in London on 3rd June 1902, the son of Captain Erlysman Charles Pinckney and Agnes Ponsonby Adair. According to that, he died at Gibraltar and is also commemorated on a wall plaque in St Peter's Church, Charlton St Peter, Wiltshire. For more information, see: www.john-pinckney.co.uk/family/g0/p241.htm

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