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Lieutenant BASIL DEAS PINKNEY

Service Number: 174248
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 06 August 1943

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY

IV. C. 29.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward and Catherine McKenzie Pinkney; husband of Marjorie Patricia Pinkney, of Thornaby-on-Tees, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE LIVES FOREVER IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO LOVE HIM FOR EVER "PAT"
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Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2142
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