22 July 2010

187017 2nd Lt Arthur B Pinning, 6th Bn, Yorkshire Regt

187017 2nd Lt Arthur Benjamin Pinning of the 6th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment, died on the 22nd July 1942. He was 29 years old, the son of William John Thomas Pinning and Florence Gertrude Pinning of Whitby, Yorkshire. He is commemorated on the Alamein Memorial.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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