Age: 21
Sex: male
Date: 13 Feb 1956
Place: River Mersey, Warrington
Gordon Pilling was found in the River Mersey on Monday 13 February 1956. He was a soldier and had disappeared from his barracks on 10 January 1956.
He was a private in the South Lancashire Regiment and it was heard that he had been worried about a forthcoming kit Inspection and that he could not quite lay his kit out properly. He had been based at the Peninsula Barracks in Warrington.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Bradford Observer - Wednesday 22 February 1956
see Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 22 February 1956, p14
see Bradford Observer - Saturday 18 February 1956
see Lancashire Evening Post - Wednesday 15 February 1956
see Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 21 February 1956
see Unsolved 1956
