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Richard Geoffrey Pine-Coffin : ウィキペディア英語版
Richard Geoffrey Pine-Coffin

Colonel Richard Geoffrey Pine-Coffin DSO & Bar, MC (2 December 1908 – 28 February 1974) was a parachute officer of the British Army during World War II. He commanded the 3rd Parachute Battalion in North Africa and the 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion in Normandy, Belgium, and Germany. His troops, amused by the unusual applicability of his family name (soldiers were usually buried in simple pine wood coffins), referred to him as "Wooden Box".
==Early life==
Born to John Edward Pine-Coffin and Louise Pine-Coffin at Portledge, the Pine-Coffin family estate in Devon, he was one of six siblings, of which a brother named John was the youngest. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. His family had a long tradition of serving in the British armed forces; his father, a brevet major in the British Army, served with the mounted infantry in the Second Boer War (gaining the Distinguished Service Order) and died in 1919,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Commonwealth War Graves Commission — casualty details, J E Pine-Coffin )〕 whilst his uncle, Lieutenant Tristram James Pine-Coffin served in World War I and died in northwestern Russia in 1919.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Commonwealth War Graves Commission — casualty details, T J Pine-Coffin )
During World War II, R. G. Pine-Coffin's older brother, E. C. Pine-Coffin, known as Claude to his family and friends, served in Malaya as a lieutenant-colonel in the British Indian Army and was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in February of 1942. Unlike most prisoners of war, Claude survived his time R. G. himself had been commissioned into his local infantry regiment, the Devonshire Regiment, as a second lieutenant in 1928. He was promoted lieutenant in 1931 and captain in 1938. He was promoted major (war substantive) shortly after the beginning of the Second World War.
Geoffrey and one of his sisters, Gwen were very close and shared a mutual love of cars, as a result of which they kept a large collection of sports cars between them. The two maintained constant correspondence even after Gwen moved to South Africa, where she contracted Tuberculosis of the bone and had her leg amputated at the hip.

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