05/20/2024
This image of the Pinnegar family has been used on numerous occasions to do with the history of Elizabeth. The family is credited with being the first family to move into the newly built houses in Elizabeth in 1955. Their new home was located at 10 Bubner street, Elizabeth South. I wrongly assumed the family would be new migrants from the UK, but they were actually all born in Adelaide.
The head of the family was Raymond Leslie Pinnegar, born 30 June 1914 at Ethelton SA. It appears he worked as a woolpresser, and labourer before enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force. Raymond enlisted on 26 March 1941, worked as cook, then from 1943 as an Aerodrome Defence Instructor.
