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Phyllis Pinnock  Essay By: Carl Halling  Part of an ongoing
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August 2008 Thumbnail for version as of 23:06, 17 June 2008  The
Tragedy of Phyllis Pinnock  My father Patrick "Pat" Halling was
born in Australia…in Rowella in the beautiful Tamar Valley in
northern Tasmania on the 28th of August 1924…but largely raised
in Sydney, the son of an Englishwoman, Phyllis Mary Pinnock, who
I always knew as Mary, and a Dane by the name of Carl Halling.
Mary had been born into a middle - or upper middle - class
family sometime towards the end of the 19th or beginning of the
20th century, possibly in the Dulwich area of South East London,
and according to my father's account, her first true love David
was a scion of the Wilson Line of Hull which had developed into
the largest privately owned shipping firm in the world in the
early part of the