Ships
- HMS Newcastle (76) Commander from 8 May 1944 · Relieved on 11 June 1944
- HMS Newcastle (76) Commander from 17 April 1945 · Relieved on 22 October 1945
Sidney Hugh Pinchin had Newcastle twice, both times as a commander. The first command ran from 8 May to 11 June 1944 and covers most of Operation Transom. The second ran from 17 April to 22 October 1945, after she had come home and while she was under refit.
Uboat.net records that he was born on 17 April 1905. The page gives no place and no date of death.
The rank table lists acting sub-lieutenant on 15 September 1925, sub-lieutenant on 30 March 1926, lieutenant on 30 August 1927, lieutenant-commander on 30 August 1935, and commander on 30 June 1943. He retired on 28 February 1955. The DSC is dated 14 October 1941 and the OBE 1 January 1955. The page says it has no career narrative and does not say what either decoration was for.
He relieved Peveril William-Powlett on 8 May 1944. On 6 May Newcastle had already sailed for Operation Transom, the cover of the Soerabaya strikes by Illustrious and USS Saratoga. She replenished in Exmouth Gulf on 15 May and returned to Trincomalee on 27 May. He left on 11 June, when James Gregson Roper took her. His second command begins on 17 April 1945, the month she sailed from Fremantle, and it runs through the arrival at Devonport on 23 May and the Tyne refit of June to August 1945. He left on 22 October 1945, after the refit had been moved to Rosyth for completion.
He was appointed OBE on 1 January 1955 and retired on 28 February 1955. The fetched pages do not record a death.