Midland Heroes: Lieutenants Killed in the Recent Fighting: … … Second Lieutenant Richard Parker Pinsent, who was killed in France on 10th October, was the younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Hume C. Pinsent, of Foxcombe Hill, near Oxford, formerly of Harborne, Birmingham. Born in 1894, he was educated at St. Andrew’s School, Eastbourne, and Marlborough. In October 1913, he went up to Balliol College, Oxford, where he had obtained an exhibition in chemistry. He obtained his commission in September 1914.
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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