Frederick Pinkney
An Engineman with H.M. Drifter Persistive, Frederick died on 9th of February 1916 at the age of 42.
Frederick was born at Shadingfield, Suffolk, on 5 February 1874, a son of Edward and Maria Pinkney. (Note that this is the date of birth given on his Royal Naval Reserve service sheet).
In 1901 Frederick lodged with Charles and Alice Woolnough, at March Lane, Mutford, and he worked as a fisherman. Frederick married Lilian Trewerne at Madron parish church, Cornwall, on 29 December 1902. (This information is taken directly from the Madron marriage register, but note some transcribed sources state that they were married at 'Suffolk' on 21 December 1907).
In 1911 Frederick and Lilian lived at 2 Saint John's Place, Penzance. By January 1915 Frederick and Lilian were living at 7 Lincoln's Buildings, Beach, Lowestoft.
Frederick joined the Royal Naval Reserve on 11 January 1915 and joined the crew of the Drifter Persistive.
The Persistive was blown up by a mine on 9 February 1916. Seven of the crew were killed and one other severely wounded.
Lilian lived at 28 Tethers Place, Lowestoft, then, in 1920, at 7 Mariners Street, and then at Wooden Cottage Rochester Road, South Lowestoft.
The crew of the Drifter Persistive on 9 February 1916
CHAPMAN, Herbert Edward (Survived) CHURCH, David HAYLOCK, Albert Harry Green PINKNEY, FrederickPOPE, Edwin William (From Falmouth) RODWELL, John Martin SIMPSON, Alexander Kelman (From Aberdeen) WHATLING, Harry John
By the second half of 1915, the smaller, mine-laying UC-class U-boats were also adding their own mines to the mix, on an almost daily basis. On October 12, they claimed the Yarmouth drifter, Frons Olivae YH 217, off North Foreland and, a few days later, the Fraserburgh boat, Star of Buchan FR 534, just east of Isle of Wight. The following February the Kessingland-owned Persistive LT 42, was mined off Dover - CREDIT:fishingnews.co.uk
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