Northop Parish Magazine
September 1918
'Roll of Honour
We are informed that Private Pinnington has fallen in action and we deeply sympathise with his widow in her bereavement.'
September 1918
'Roll of Honour
We are informed that Private Pinnington has fallen in action and we deeply sympathise with his widow in her bereavement.'
WAR MEMORIALS IN THE PARISH OF NORTHOP
The villages of Northop, Northop Hall and Sychdyn (Soughton)
The villages of Northop, Northop Hall and Sychdyn (Soughton)
Name Franklin William Pinnington
Regiment 16th/17th Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Service Rank and Number Private 19405
Military Cemetery/Memorial Gezaincourt Communal Military Cemetery Extension
Ref No. of Grave or Memorial 11,N.12
Country of Cemetery/Memorial France
Medals Awarded The British War Medal 1914-1920 Victory Medal 1914-1919 The 1914-1915 Star
Date and Circumstances of Death Killed in Action at Doullers on 13th July 1918. Died of Wounds 18th July 1918. (Date varies on two sources)
Biographical Details Known
Frank was born in 1880 in West Derby L,pool. He was the son of William Pinnington, a chef. At the time of his marriage in 1908 he lived at 13 Arnold Street and he was a 28 year old house painter. His bride was Sarah Bone, she was also 28 and was the daughter of John Bone, a guard. Their home was 134 Parkhill Road. The wedding took place at St Cleopas, Toxteth Park.
By 1911, the couple had moved to Sychdyn and the census reports them living in Duke Street. He was still a house painter and worked on a 'Gentleman's Estate'. He and Sarah had one child, a son John Franklin who was 7 months old. They had a visitor, Franklin's brother William John, a 20 year old ship's steward was staying with them.
He first entered a theatre of war on 2nd December 1915 and he served in a Trench Mortar Battalion in France.
(Many thanks to distant descendent Pippa Binnie for help with these details)
Regiment 16th/17th Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Service Rank and Number Private 19405
Military Cemetery/Memorial Gezaincourt Communal Military Cemetery Extension
Ref No. of Grave or Memorial 11,N.12
Country of Cemetery/Memorial France
Medals Awarded The British War Medal 1914-1920 Victory Medal 1914-1919 The 1914-1915 Star
Date and Circumstances of Death Killed in Action at Doullers on 13th July 1918. Died of Wounds 18th July 1918. (Date varies on two sources)
Biographical Details Known
Frank was born in 1880 in West Derby L,pool. He was the son of William Pinnington, a chef. At the time of his marriage in 1908 he lived at 13 Arnold Street and he was a 28 year old house painter. His bride was Sarah Bone, she was also 28 and was the daughter of John Bone, a guard. Their home was 134 Parkhill Road. The wedding took place at St Cleopas, Toxteth Park.
By 1911, the couple had moved to Sychdyn and the census reports them living in Duke Street. He was still a house painter and worked on a 'Gentleman's Estate'. He and Sarah had one child, a son John Franklin who was 7 months old. They had a visitor, Franklin's brother William John, a 20 year old ship's steward was staying with them.
He first entered a theatre of war on 2nd December 1915 and he served in a Trench Mortar Battalion in France.
(Many thanks to distant descendent Pippa Binnie for help with these details)
Visit to Gezaincourt Cemetery 15th September 2008
This cemetery was the last one we visited on what had been a long and tiring day. It was starting to go dark and it was cold. The cemetery is situated in a small village Gezaincourt, south west of Doullens. The military cemetery is an extension to the civilian village cemetery. It was an interesting experience because we had to walk through the village cemetery to reach the CWGC site. The contrast between the two cemeteries could not have been greater. The CWGC site was as we had come to expect, neat, tidy, beautifully kept with lawns and flower beds between the neat rows of simple identical gravestones. The village cemetery on the other hand was in a deadful state of neglect with broken memorial stones and a variety of huge, ostentatious, shiney tombs which seemed to be competing with each other for grandness. Any of that original grandness had been obliterated by the sheer neglect of the place.
The cemetery contains 596 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. There were Chinese War Labourers Graves and Hindu War graves and a plot of 76 German graves. The cemetery extension was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens - this was the third one by him that we saw that week.
We found Frank's grave with its beautiful red rose.
We wrote in the Visitors' Book
'In memory of Frank Pinnington, a Sychdyn lad. Hedd Perfaith Hedd'
We wrote in the Visitors' Book
'In memory of Frank Pinnington, a Sychdyn lad. Hedd Perfaith Hedd'