5465 Captain John PITMAN, 3rd King's Own Hussars: 01/10/1943

Personal Number: 45465
Rank: Captain
Name: John PITMAN
Unit: 3rd King's Own Hussars


London Gazette : 1930
CAVALRY
3rd H.—2nd-Lt. John Pitman (Univ. Candidate) Irom Gen. List T.A. to be 2nd Lt.

 

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CAPTAIN JOHN PITMAN
Service Number: 45465
Regiment & Unit: 3rd King's Own Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps
Date of Death: 01 October 1943
Age 36 years old
Buried or commemorated at KHAYAT BEACH WAR CEMETERY
Grave Reference: D. A. 5.
Location: Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
Additional Info: Son of Ernest and Frances Isobel Pitman; husband of Elizabeth Cattanach Pitman, of Farnham, Surrey.
Personal Inscription: BRAVE, GENTLE, TRUE AND BELOVED. "DEATH HATH NO MORE DOMINION OVER HIM"

 

See also:

• Pitman Family
• Pitman Family. © Cedric Hudson (WMR-7409)

His siblings:

• 45468 Captain Peter PITMAN-BUTLER, MiD, 7 Queen's Own Hussars: 17/07/1940
• First Officer Honor Isabel PITMAN, Air Transport Auxiliary: 19/04/1943

• A surviving brother - James Pitman - Wikipedia "was born in Kensington, London, on the 14th of August 1901. His father was Ernest Pitman and his mother was Frances Isabel Pitman, nee Butler. He was the eldest child in the family and had five other siblings, but three were killed in the Second World War:[1]
• Major John Pitman, born 22 Jan 1907 (killed in military action in Palestine, during World War II)[3][4]
• Captain Peter Pitman Butler, born 05 Mar 1911 (killed in military action in Egypt, during World War II) [5][4]
• First Officer Honor Isabel Salmon nee Pitman, born 30 Oct 1912 (killed while piloting an Airspeed Oxford for the Air Transport Auxiliary in 1943, during World War II).[4]"
• Their grandfather was the Isaac Pitman who had developed Shorthand Writing known as Pitman Shorthand