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Family group: The Great War pair awarded to Corporal E. Pinkney, Royal Engineers, a professional football player with over 100 appearances to his credit as an outside forward, including eight matches for Everton and 63 for Gillingham British War and Victory Medals (201725 Cpl. E. Pinkney, R.E.), and a Sunday School Attendance Medal, white metal, nearly extremely fine The Second World War campaign group of four awarded to Assistant Steward A. E. Pinkney, Naval Auxiliary Personnel, Merchant Navy, who was killed in action aboard the escort aircraft carrier H.M.S Avenger in November 1942 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, in their original addressed card forwarding box to the recipient’s father in Liverpool, together with original Admiralty condolence slip in the name of ‘Albert Ernest Pinkney’, extremely fine A group of prize medals and assorted documentation appertaining to Private H. M. Pinkney, Royal Army Ordnance Corps Royal Army Ordnance Corps prize medals (3), one silver, two bronze, for Football, High Jump and Running, one named to ‘10541724 Pte. Pinkney’, together with Liverpool Business Houses Sports Association prize Medal, silver and enamel, the reverse named to ‘H. M. Pinkney, 1948-49’, and two driving safety awards; together with the recipient’s Soldier’s Release Book, Class ‘A’, and his Soldier’s Service and Pay Book, in khaki cover, generally in good condition (Lot) £200-250 Footnote Ernest “Ernie” Pinkney, who was born in Glasgow, played for West Hartlepool prior to appearing for Everton on eight occasions in the period 1909-11. Transferring to Gillingham in 1913, he went on to play as an outside forward on 63 occasions, scoring 13 goals. Active service as a Corporal in the Royal Engineers having then intervened, he joined Tranmere Rovers after the War,followed by further transfers to Halifax Town in 1921 and Accrington Stanley in 1922, the latter appointments seeing him make another 40 or so professional appearances and score five further goals; sold with three copied football photographs, including Everton team line-up for 1910-11 season. Albert Ernest Pinkney, the son of professional footballer “Ernie” Pinkney, was killed in action on 15 November 1942, while serving as an Assistant Steward in the escort carrier H.M.S. Avenger. Commissioned in March 1942, the Avenger was largely responsible for the success of Arctic convoy PQ-18 in September 1942, when, in the aftermath of the disastrous PQ-17 convoy, her Sea Hurricanes flew regular sorties against inbound hostile aircraft - no Naval escorts were sunk and and 30 of her 41 merchantmen safely reached Archangel. Having then escorted QP-14 home, she was ordered to the Mediterranean for the North Africa landings, and it was while employed in these latter operations on 15 November 1942, west of Gibraltar, that she was torpedoed by the U-155 under Kapitanleutnant Adolf Piening - she quickly sank, only 17 of her complement of 550 officers and ratings being rescued. Pinkney, who was 26 years of age, has no known grave and is commemorated on the Liverpool Naval Memorial. Herbert Matthew Pinkney, who was born in July 1920, the younger son of professional footballer “Ernie” Pinkney, enlisted in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps at Warrington in March 1941 and was discharged at the end of 1946, after latterly serving in Iraq.