FALLEN OFFICER: Second Lieutenant Richard Parker Pinsent, 10th Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who was killed in France on October 10th, was the younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Hume C. Pinsent, of Faucombe (sic) Hill, near Oxford, formerly of Harborne, Birmingham. He was born in 1894 and was educated at St. Andrew’s School, Eastbourne, and Marlborough. In October 1913, he went up to Balliol CoIlege. Oxford, where he had obtained an Exhibition in Chemistry. On the outbreak of the war, he joined a training camp, and in September 1914, obtained his commission. He went to France with his battalion in July 1915.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
GRO0435 Devonport: Hume Chancellor Pinsent: 1857 – 1920
GRO0740 Devonport: Richard Parker Pinsent: 1894 – 1915