Richard Stephen Pierrepont POYNTZ

Ancestral surnames: 

• Poyntz, Brinn, Minor, Carter, Pierrepont, Constable
• see his family tree drawing via www.groupphoto.co.uk/extra Row 3

Education: 

• Radley College
• Oriel College, Oxford University

Decorations & Campaign Medals:

• 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Memorials: 

• None (He was buried on Friday 14^th March 1958 in the churchyard of St James the Less, Iron Acton (the ancestral home of the Poyntz family), near Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, in a quiet ceremony with few people present. His son didn't think there was a gravestone, and neither a search by me or of a history group who transcribed the gravestones found a gravestone for him).

Pages in book (www.groupphoto.co.uk/the-book): 132-134

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