Vital Statistics
James George Pinson: 1913 – 1990 GRO1948 Bristol (Metal Worker, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
Hazel Doreen Thompson: xxxx – 1997
Married: 1939: Burwood, New South Wales
Children by Hazel Doreen Thompson:
Daughter (GRO0572)
Family Branch: Bristol
PinsentID: GRO1948
James George Pinson was the eldest son of James Pinson by his wife Minnie (née Calder). He was born in Annandale, where his father was a “tram conductor”. He had two younger brothers (Leslie Andrew and Oliver David) and three younger sisters. His father later became a “box maker”.
The Electoral Records show that James George and his brother Leslie Andrew were still living with their parents when they came of-age. The family then lived on “Augusta Road” in Mortlake, which is in the Concord district of New South Wales. James George was reported to be a “labourer” in 1936. However, he struck out on his own and married Hazel Doreen Thompson in Burrowa, a farming village in the foothills of the mountains west of Sydney, in 1939.
He returned to Sydney and was twenty-eight years old a “cellar-man” when he volunteered to at home serve in the “Australian Armed Forces” in January 1942. He joined the “A.C.M.” (“Active Civilian Military Force)” which was raised for limited service in Australia. James’s records in the “National Archives of Australia” are now available on-line. They show that he was 5 ft. 9 in. tall, had blue eyes and a dark complexion, and black hair. He carried an appendix scar as an identification mark.
Signals man James George Pinson (#N248329) was assigned to the “2nd Australian Corp.” which served in and around Brisbane in Queensland from 10th April 1942 until 7th February 1943. James George went absent without leave in late November 1942 and was fined £5 and docked seventeen days pay. Perhaps he had just been told (or just agreed!) to transfer to the “A.I.F.” (“Australian Imperial Force“) and gone home to see his family. The switch meant that he would be eligible to take part in overseas operations.
James was shipped out to Australian (now Papua) New Guinea on 4th February 1943 and officially joined the “A.I.F.” on the 8th February. Linesman James George Pinson (A.I.F. #NX151224) served with the “6th Australian Line Section” in New Guinea until 15th August 1943. He contracted malaria and seems to have oscillated in and out of ambulance stations and hospitals during month of August. He was shipped back to Australia in November and served with the “6th Line Section” in Queensland through to the spring of 1944 – when he was not in hospital with malaria, that is. For some reason, he was transferred to “50 Camp Hospital” in Balcombe, which is in Victoria State in May 1944. Evidently he recovered while there, as he was able to returned to his unit in Queensland that July.
In December 1944, James was sent to the Island of Morotai, in the “Dutch East Indies” (now Indonesia). The Island had been recapture from the Japanese earlier in the year and he was probably sent to help repair its damaged telephone lines. Interestingly, his stay overlapped with that of his brother, Oliver David Pinson, who was there with a “Field Ambulance Unit”. James took a few days “AWOL” in January 1945 (possible to see his brother?) and returned to Australia at the end of his assignment that December. He disembarked in Sydney and was taken on the strength of the “N.S.W. L. of C. Area Leave and Transit Depot” prior to demobilization. He was discharged on 9th January 1946. In all, James served for 1,306 days, of which 578 were overseas.
James George had been a “cellarman” living with his parent on “Augusta Street” in Mortlake when he signed up, and he was (at least nominally) still with them when the Electoral Roll was compiled in 1943. His wife, Hazel Doreen (née Thompson), was then living on “Cressy Street”, in Goulburn – where she was responsible for “home Duties”. Perhaps she spent the war years living with her own family. According to the Electoral Rolls, the couple both moved to “Banksia Road” in the Bankstown East district of Blaxland after the war. They were living there by 1949, by which time James had become a “metal worker”. They had at least one child, a daughter, either during or shortly after the war. She became a “school teacher” and stayed on with her parents until at least 1980.
James George Pinson died in May 1990 and was interred at Rookwood Catholic Cemetery, near Sydney in New South Wales. His widow, Hazel Doreen, died in August 1997 and was also interred there (Australia and New Zealand Find A Grave.com).
Family Tree
Grandparents
Grandfather: Archibald Frederick Pinson: 1869 – 1951
Grandmother: Rosanna Pettit: xxxx – xxxx
Parents
Father: James William Pinson: 1889 – 1950
Mother: Minnie Calder: xxxx – xxxx
Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)
Elizabeth Jane Pinson: 1887 – xxxx
James William Pinson: 1889 – xxxx
Richard Thomas Pinson: 1889 – 1945
Archibald Frederick Pinson: 1891 – 1973
William James Pinson: 1893 – xxxx
Stanley Roy Pinson: 1896 – 1898
Rose A. Pinson: 1903 – xxxx
Doris Violet Marjory Pinson: 1905 – xxxx
Mary Agnes Pinson: 1907 – xxxx
Thomas Henry Pinson: 1909 – 1978
Male Siblings (Brothers)
James George Pinson: 1913 – 1990
Leslie Andrew Pinson: 1915 – 1960
Oliver David Pinson: 1923 – 2005
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