Name
Alfred James Pinnock
1878
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/04/1917
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Pioneer
260505
Royal Engineers
338th Road Construction Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION NO.1
V. E. 47.
France
Headstone Inscription
GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
UK & Other Memorials
Borehamwood Town Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Borehamwood, Not on the Elstree memorials
Pre War
Alfred James Pinnock was born in Elstree, Hertfordshire, in 1878, son of Alfred Pinnock, a Gas Works Manager, and Sarah Pinnock, (nee Stiles). The eldest of six children.
1881 Census records the family as “Punnock” Alfred is aged 2, living with his parents, and brother Walter (1) at, The Gas Factory, Elstree, Herts. (Elstree & Borehamwood Gas Works).
1891 Census records Alfred aged 12, at school, living with his parents and four siblings at, Gas Works Cottage, Shenley Road, Elstree, Herts.
1901 Census records Alfred, aged 23, working as a Stationary Engine Driver (Stone Crusher), in Skipton, Yorkshire, boarding with George Bruce and his family at, 19, Back Water Street, Skipton, Yorks.
1911 Census records Alfred still working in Skipton, Yorks, as a Stationary Engineman, boarding with Isabella Gregson, a Boarding House Keeper at, 9 Hallam’s Yard, Skipton, Yorks.
Wartime Service
Alfred enlisted at Garforth, Yorkshire, posted to the Royal engineers, Road Construction Company with the service number 260505.
He died of illness on 26 April 1917, aged 38.
Additional Information
His mother, Mrs. S. Pinnock, 24, Kingsland Road, Alton, Hants., ordered his headstone inscription: "GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN". His effects of £3-10s-7d, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity of £3, went to his mother Sarah Pinnock.
Acknowledgments
Taff Williams, Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
