Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameCapt Mark Leslie Pilkington MC 
[19, Marriage, Q1 of 1936, Westminster dist, vol 1A, p. 755], [3, Birth, Q1 of 1914, Kensington dist, vol 1A, p. 155], [37, His death on 18 Nov 1942 in Lybia]
[19, Marriage, Q1 of 1936, Westminster dist, vol 1A, p. 755], [3, Birth, Q1 of 1914, Kensington dist, vol 1A, p. 155], [37, His death on 18 Nov 1942 in Lybia]Birth12 Jan 1914, Kensington district, London
Death18 Nov 1942, Slain in Libya
BurialTripoli War Cemetery, 10.H.3, Libya
GeneralCWWG: In Life Guards.
Spouses
1Susan Violet Henderson [3, Birth, Q4 of 1915, St Geo Han Sq dist, vol 1A, p. 617], [62, 107th edn or 2003, Faringdon article, vol 1, p. 1389], [19, Baprtism on 10 Jan 1916 at All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, Knightsbridge, London]
[3, Birth, Q4 of 1915, St Geo Han Sq dist, vol 1A, p. 617], [62, 107th edn or 2003, Faringdon article, vol 1, p. 1389], [19, Baprtism on 10 Jan 1916 at All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, Knightsbridge, London]FatherMajor Alec Puleston Henderson (ca1876-1931)
MotherGladys Rhoda MacLean (1883-1953)
Marriageca Feb 1936, St Margaret’s, Westminster, London [19, Marriage, Q1 of 1936, Westminster dist, vol 1A, p. 755]
ChildrenSimon M (ca1838-)
Notes for Capt Mark Leslie Pilkington MC
His birth index:
First name(s) Mark L
Last name Pilkington
Birth quarter 1
Birth year 1914
Mother's maiden name Leslie
District Kensington
County London
Country England
Volume 1A
Page 155
Record set England & Wales Births 1837-2006
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From CWGC:
CAPTAIN MARK LESLIE PILKINGTON
Service Number: 76537
Regiment & Unit/Ship Life Guards
Date of Death Died 18 November 1942
Age 28 years old
Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY
10. H. 3.
Libya
Secondary Unit, Regiment and Long Range Desert Group
Country of Service United Kingdom
Awards Military Cross
Additional Info Son of Hubert Carlisle Pilkington, and of Ruth Honor Pilkington,
of Little Offley, Hertfordshire;
husband of Susan Violet Pilkington.
Personal Inscription "DAY SHALL CLASP HIM WITH STRONG HANDS,
AND NIGHT SHALL FOLD HIM IN SOFT WINGS"
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First name(s) Mark L
Last name Pilkington
Birth quarter 1
Birth year 1914
Mother's maiden name Leslie
District Kensington
County London
Country England
Volume 1A
Page 155
Record set England & Wales Births 1837-2006
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From CWGC:
CAPTAIN MARK LESLIE PILKINGTON
Service Number: 76537
Regiment & Unit/Ship Life Guards
Date of Death Died 18 November 1942
Age 28 years old
Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY
10. H. 3.
Libya
Secondary Unit, Regiment and Long Range Desert Group
Country of Service United Kingdom
Awards Military Cross
Additional Info Son of Hubert Carlisle Pilkington, and of Ruth Honor Pilkington,
of Little Offley, Hertfordshire;
husband of Susan Violet Pilkington.
Personal Inscription "DAY SHALL CLASP HIM WITH STRONG HANDS,
AND NIGHT SHALL FOLD HIM IN SOFT WINGS"
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Will notes for Capt Mark Leslie Pilkington MC
His probate index:
1943
PILKINGTON Mark Leslie of Burr Cottage Chobham Surrey died 18 November 1942 on war service Administration Llandudno 3 June to Susan Violet Pretzlik (wife of Charles Pretzlik).
Effects £741 8s. 7d.
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1943
PILKINGTON Mark Leslie of Burr Cottage Chobham Surrey died 18 November 1942 on war service Administration Llandudno 3 June to Susan Violet Pretzlik (wife of Charles Pretzlik).
Effects £741 8s. 7d.
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Mon Inscripts notes for Capt Mark Leslie Pilkington MC
In the churchyard of St mary Magdalene’s church, Kings Walden Road, Offley, Herts SG5 3DU, there is this inscription:
MARK LESLIE PILKINGTON MC
CAPTAIN THE LIFE GUARDS
BORN 12 JANUARY 1914
DIED 18 NOVEMBER 1942
HE SERVED IN PALESTINE
ABYSSINIA TRANSJORDAN
AND WITH THE LONG RANGE
DESERT GROUPS IN NORTH AFRICA
WHERE HE WAS KILLED.
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MARK LESLIE PILKINGTON MC
CAPTAIN THE LIFE GUARDS
BORN 12 JANUARY 1914
DIED 18 NOVEMBER 1942
HE SERVED IN PALESTINE
ABYSSINIA TRANSJORDAN
AND WITH THE LONG RANGE
DESERT GROUPS IN NORTH AFRICA
WHERE HE WAS KILLED.
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DNB Main notes for Capt Mark Leslie Pilkington MC
THERE IS OBIT ON THE CHRIST CHURCH OXFORD SITE:
Captain Mark Leslie Pilkington
Life Guards and Long Range Desert Group, Service number 76537
Born: January 12th 1914
Died: November 18th 1942
Mark was born in London, the eldest of the four sons of Hubert Carlisle Pilkington and his wife, Ruth Honor Leslie. His father was a member of the Pilkington glass family and her father was a ship owner. Both fathers were well known amateur cricketers.
He was educated at Eton and Matriculated in 1932. He was up at Christ Church for two years in which time he was Whipper-In for the University Drag Hounds.
He married Susan Violet Henderson on February 25th 1936. A son was born in 1938.
Mark joined the Life Guards Special Reserve in 1938. In February 1940, they went to the Middle East. He was, posthumously, awarded the Military Cross.
“For conspicuous gallantry in action over a prolonged period in April 1941 to 27 November 1941.
This officer entered Ethiopia in March 1941, in command of an operations centre composed of Ethiopians from the Sudan. He was directed against the Debra Tabor area in April. Together with other Ethiopian forces under British officers he led many harassing attacks against that place until its surrender in June 1941.
Taking over a complete unit known as the Vollo Banda, consisting of 1,500 Italian-trained irregulars who volunteered to serve against the Italians after the surrender of Debra Tabor, Captain Pilkington continued to set an example of a high order in his raids and harassing attacks on the Italian lines of communication between Kulkaber and Gondar.
With the arrival of regular troops in the Gondar area, Captain Pilkington and his Vollo Banda took part in the attacks on the Kulkaber position on the 13th and 21st November, giving particular valuable assistance in the latter action in spite of heavy casualties to his troops. On 27th November he led his troops in the final attack on Gondar with great dash and gallantry, taking all objectives assigned to him.”
He served in Palestine, Abyssinia, Transjordan and with the Long Range Desert Group in North Africa where he was killed on Wednesday November 18th 1942 when spotted by Italian aircraft & machine gunned. At the time he was returning machine gun fire.
He is buried in the Tripoli War Cemetery Plot 10. H. 3.
He is commemorated on the War Memorial at Offley, near Hitchin, Hertfordshire where his parents lived. His youngest brother Charles Leslie is buried in the churchyard, there. He was killed in a flying accident on March 11th 1942, aged 20. Their father died soon after.
Mark’s widow remarried in 1943.
Mark Pilkington: Some Letters 1939-1942. 1st Ed., xvii+218pp., portrait frontis., 56 photos. (mostly East African campaign), portrait at end from painting by Francis Hodge, maps. No imprint/date (printed by Clowes & Sons, evidently for private circulation, c.1947). Contains excellent, detailed letters from the Abyssinian campaign, with many unusual, photos., followed by extracts from letters of condolence from other officers &c. Orig. blue cloth, gilt
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Captain Mark Leslie Pilkington
Life Guards and Long Range Desert Group, Service number 76537
Born: January 12th 1914
Died: November 18th 1942
Mark was born in London, the eldest of the four sons of Hubert Carlisle Pilkington and his wife, Ruth Honor Leslie. His father was a member of the Pilkington glass family and her father was a ship owner. Both fathers were well known amateur cricketers.
He was educated at Eton and Matriculated in 1932. He was up at Christ Church for two years in which time he was Whipper-In for the University Drag Hounds.
He married Susan Violet Henderson on February 25th 1936. A son was born in 1938.
Mark joined the Life Guards Special Reserve in 1938. In February 1940, they went to the Middle East. He was, posthumously, awarded the Military Cross.
“For conspicuous gallantry in action over a prolonged period in April 1941 to 27 November 1941.
This officer entered Ethiopia in March 1941, in command of an operations centre composed of Ethiopians from the Sudan. He was directed against the Debra Tabor area in April. Together with other Ethiopian forces under British officers he led many harassing attacks against that place until its surrender in June 1941.
Taking over a complete unit known as the Vollo Banda, consisting of 1,500 Italian-trained irregulars who volunteered to serve against the Italians after the surrender of Debra Tabor, Captain Pilkington continued to set an example of a high order in his raids and harassing attacks on the Italian lines of communication between Kulkaber and Gondar.
With the arrival of regular troops in the Gondar area, Captain Pilkington and his Vollo Banda took part in the attacks on the Kulkaber position on the 13th and 21st November, giving particular valuable assistance in the latter action in spite of heavy casualties to his troops. On 27th November he led his troops in the final attack on Gondar with great dash and gallantry, taking all objectives assigned to him.”
He served in Palestine, Abyssinia, Transjordan and with the Long Range Desert Group in North Africa where he was killed on Wednesday November 18th 1942 when spotted by Italian aircraft & machine gunned. At the time he was returning machine gun fire.
He is buried in the Tripoli War Cemetery Plot 10. H. 3.
He is commemorated on the War Memorial at Offley, near Hitchin, Hertfordshire where his parents lived. His youngest brother Charles Leslie is buried in the churchyard, there. He was killed in a flying accident on March 11th 1942, aged 20. Their father died soon after.
Mark’s widow remarried in 1943.
Mark Pilkington: Some Letters 1939-1942. 1st Ed., xvii+218pp., portrait frontis., 56 photos. (mostly East African campaign), portrait at end from painting by Francis Hodge, maps. No imprint/date (printed by Clowes & Sons, evidently for private circulation, c.1947). Contains excellent, detailed letters from the Abyssinian campaign, with many unusual, photos., followed by extracts from letters of condolence from other officers &c. Orig. blue cloth, gilt
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Notes for Mark Leslie & Susan Violet (Family)
Marriage index:
First name(s) Susan V
Last name Henderson
Marriage quarter 1
Marriage year 1936
MarriageFinder Susan V Henderson married one of these people
Mark L Pilkington
Spouse's last name Pilkington
District Westminster
County London
Country England
Volume 1A
Page number 755
Record set England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005
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and A truncated Westminster archives transcript:
First name(s) Mark Leslie
Last name Pilkington
Age 22
Birth year 1914
Marriage year 1936
Parish St Margaret, Westminster
Spouse's first name(s) Susan Violet
Spouse's last name Henderson
Spouse's age 20
Spouse's birth year 1916
County Middlesex
Country England
Archive City of Westminster Archives Centre
Record set Westminster Marriages
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First name(s) Susan V
Last name Henderson
Marriage quarter 1
Marriage year 1936
MarriageFinder Susan V Henderson married one of these people
Mark L Pilkington
Spouse's last name Pilkington
District Westminster
County London
Country England
Volume 1A
Page number 755
Record set England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005
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and A truncated Westminster archives transcript:
First name(s) Mark Leslie
Last name Pilkington
Age 22
Birth year 1914
Marriage year 1936
Parish St Margaret, Westminster
Spouse's first name(s) Susan Violet
Spouse's last name Henderson
Spouse's age 20
Spouse's birth year 1916
County Middlesex
Country England
Archive City of Westminster Archives Centre
Record set Westminster Marriages
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