{"id":4914,"date":"2015-08-17T22:36:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T02:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2015-08-18T12:12:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T16:12:37","slug":"alfred-pyner-1917-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/alfred-pyner-1917-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfred Pyner 1917-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alfred William Pyner \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01917-2015 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0by Robert Lansdale<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. I received an email recently from Alf’s daughter, Marilyn. She sadly informed\u00a0me that Alf had passed away a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Her father, \u00a0Alfred William Pyner was born in Barking, Essex, England on November 12 1917. He joined the RAF during the second world war flying Spitfire aircraft and performing aerial photography. Late in November 1944, Alf married his wife Emily. After the war, Alf joined the famous British firm of Ilford, noted\u00a0for its films, papers and photographic chemicals. At Ilford, Alf became an industrial and scientific photographer. He was involved with Ilford as the company evolved its colour processes.<\/p>\n

In his spare time, Alf enjoyed working with his hands\u00a0and in 1952, he built his own home. A decade later this was topped when he built his own yacht! Both a yachtsman and photographer, Alf loved to travel throughout the UK.<\/p>\n

In the late 1990s\u00a0Alfred and his small family emigrated to the GTA where he promptly joined the PHSC. At our January 1998<\/a> meeting, Alf did a presentation on aerial photography emphasizing British cameras. His talk ultimately became a self published book “Air Cameras 1915-1945 RAF and USAAF<\/em>” which earned one of the earliest \u00a0publishing grants from the PHSC.<\/p>\n

In June of 2003<\/a> Alf spoke once again at our Toronto meeting, this time telling about his experiences with Ilford as it worked to develop a viable colour process after cementing its strength in\u00a0black and white photography. Personally, I used Ilford B&W films, papers, and chemistry for many years.<\/p>\n

Here in Canada, Alf stayed active in aircraft as well as photography helping out at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum<\/a>. He is mentioned in High Flight, A Story of World War II,<\/em> \u00a0the book written by Linda Granfield . It is fitting that the poem High Flight<\/a><\/em> by Spitfire pilot John Magee<\/a>, as quoted in Linda Granfield’s book, appears on Alfred’s\u00a0memorial\u00a0card.<\/p>\n

He will be missed by wife Emily, daughter Marilyn Rickard, and his many grand and great-grand children.
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Toronto. I received an email recently from Alf’s daughter, Marilyn. She sadly informed\u00a0me that Alf had passed away a few weeks ago. Her father, \u00a0Alfred William Pyner was born in Barking, Essex, England on November 12 1917. He joined the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[394,240,395],"class_list":["post-4914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-ilford","tag-obituary","tag-pyner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4920,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions\/4920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}