This name is on the St Mark's War Memorial, Kennington Oval, London SE11 H. Pinnan (Harry Pinnan) (Pinnan, Harry) Service no 373715 Rifleman, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles), 8th Battalion Died on 11 February 1917 Remembered at Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium and at St Mark's Church, London The Soldiers Died in the Great War database gives Harry Pinnan's birthplace as Wellington, New Zealand. However, the a family tree at ancestry.co.uk gives his birthplace as Kiel, Russia (1883), although he may have been born in Germany and his original name may have been Pinnau. He married Amy Bertha Clarke in West Ham in 1907, with whom he had a daughter, Bertha, and was living at Custom House, 12 Otley Road, West Ham, in 1911, where he was described as a seaman. He enlisted in the London Regiment at Canning Town. |
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