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.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
W. H. J. Pyne
Commemorated ati
Western Postal District war memorial - Rathbone Place
The plaque does not point out that not all of the WW2 names were in the armed...
Other Subjects
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Michael Ventris
Architect and decipherer of Linear B script. While still at school he heard about the discovery of Knossos by Arthur Evans, and about the undeciphered Linear B script on the tablets. This mystery ...
1 memorial
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them