Orders, Decorations and Medals

Six: Major Richard Beaumont Pinney, Royal Army Service Corps, late 28th Battalion London Regiment (Artists’ Rifles

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, all unnamed; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial, reverse dated ‘1951’, unnamed; Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., Territorial (6791075 Pte., 28 Lond. R.) mounted for display, very fine and better (6) £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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M.I.D. London Gazette 6 April 1944.

Richard Beaumont Pinney was born in Woodford, Essex, on 10 June 1903. Employed as a Meat Inspector, he served for many years in the 28th Battalion London Regiment (Artists’ Rifles) and was awarded the Efficiency Medal in 1935, this notified in the A.O. 33 of February 1935. He was listed in the Artists’ Rifles Gazette of September 1933 for ‘his success at pig-stcking’; and in 1935 he was a member of the team of four who won the Joel Trophy in a steeplechase. Having attained the rank of Lance-Corporal, Pinney resigned from the Artists’ Rifles in November 1936.

In the late 1930’s he was appointed to the Army Officers Emergency Reserve and on 2 September 1939 he was transferred from the Reserve to be a 2nd Lieutenant in the R.A.S.C. Pinney was promoted to War Substantive Captain and Temporary Major in October 1940. During the war he saw service in the Middle East for which he was mentioned in despatches. After the war, as a Captain in the T.A.R.O., he was awarded the Efficiency Decoration (London Gazette 18 September 1951). Captain Pinney having exceeded the age limit ceased to belong to the T.A.R.O. of the R.A.S.C. on 25 June 1958, and was granted the honorary rank of Major. In civil life after the war, he was employed with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in Iran. With copied research.