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CEF For Service at The Front Pin / Class A War Service Badge - attributed to Captain Pinder, Pilot with Royal Flying Corps, Max Immelman's 12th victim.
CEF For Service at The Front Pin / Class A War Service Badge - attributed to Captain Pinder, Pilot with Royal Flying Corps, Max Immelman's 12th victim.
CEF For Service at The Front Pin / Class A War Service Badge - attributed to Captain Pinder, Wounded and taken P.O.W. as a Pilot with Royal Flying Corps, Max Immelman's 12th victim.
Numbered 357482, with nut.
Frank George Pinder was born in Victoria, B.C. on 9th July 1883 and a pre-war member of the 50th Regiment of Militia. He was a Miner by occupation and attested on 9th November 1914, serving in the Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade and also Eaton's Machine Gun Battery. On 29th March 1916 he was wounded and taken prisoner;
From wordpress: Max Immelmann claimed his 12th victory today when he shot down an FE2b (6352) from 23 Squadron RFC over Queant.
2nd Lieutenants Frank Pinder and Edward Halford were escorting a reconnaissance mission when they encountered Immelmann. Pinder was wounded and according to Immelmann, Halford froze. “At the same moment I had shot him through both arms. The observer had completely lost his head. He didn’t fire one single shot from both MG's!” Pinder was forced to land behind enemy lines and both men were taken prisoner. This was the first loss for 23 Squadron. Frank died on December 16, 1964 (aged 81) in Vancouver, British Columbia of Congestive heart failure.
Tragically, his son, Pilot Officer Peter Francis Pinder was killed on 15th Jan. 1943 serving with 214 (F.M.S. -Federated Malay States Squadron of the RCAF. He was the Rear Gunner of a Sterling Bomber which took off from Chedburgh at 18:26 hrs on a mission to Lorient, France. Lost without trace. All are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
