St. Pinnock, Charles Clifford Denham (2nd Lieutenant, b. - d.1916)

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Accession Number 1DRL/0547
Collection type Private Record
Record type Collection
Measurement 1 wallet: 1 cm.
Object type Letter
Maker St Pinnock, Charles Clifford Denham
Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made c. 1928
Access Open
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

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Description

Collection relating to the service of 2nd Lieutenant Charles Clifford Denham St. Pinnock, 8 Light Horse (later 57 Battalion), Gallipoli, 1915. Collection consists of typed extracts from two letters written by St. Pinnock in 1915. One letter gives a detailed account of the charge at The Nek, 7th August; the other relates, in considerable detail, his experience of the evacuation of Anzac.

History / Summary

Biographical notes: 2nd Lt. Charles Clifford Denham St. Pinnock, 57 Battalion, AIF. Killed in action, 19 August 1916. Age 30. Son of Charles Denham St. Pinnock and Annie Lydia St. Pinnock, of Woodmason St., Malvern, Victoria, Australia. Native of Sydney, New South Wales.