Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man:
Private William Henry John Pyne was born about 1906 in East London, the son of William and Amelia Jane Pyne and was the husband of Margaret Charlotte Pyne of South Norwood, Surrey. On 7 February 1938 he was appointed as a Postman in the London Postal Region. He joined the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, service number 5333657, and was attached to their 2nd Battalion, which formed part of the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1939. He died, aged 34 years, on 21 May 1940 at Dunkirk, France and as he has no known grave is commemorated on Column 61 of the Dunkirk Memorial in the Dunkirk Town Cemetery.
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W. H. J. Pyne
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Western Postal District war memorial - Rathbone Place
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Carlo Gatti
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