Charles Starmer PINNEY

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PINNEY, Charles Starmer

Service Number:	2138
Enlisted:	2 May 1916, Belmont, WA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	44th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Grimsby, England, 1886
Home Town:	Albany, Albany, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Cleaning Contractor
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 30 March 1918
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gnowangerup War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

2 May 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2138, 44th Infantry Battalion, Belmont, WA
10 Oct 1916:	Involvement Private, 2138, 44th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: ''
10 Oct 1916:	Embarked Private, 2138, 44th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Fremantle

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Charles Starmer PINNEY was born in Grimsby, England in 1886

His parents were John Thomas PINNEY & Sarah Ann SANDERSON

He enlisted in Belmont, Western Australia on 2nd May, 1916 & embarked with the 44th Infantry Battalion, 3rd reinforcements from Fremantle, WA on the HMAT Suffolk on 10th October, 1916

He was Killed in Action in France on 30th March, 1918 - no known grave

His name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial & the Villers Bretonneux Memorial

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