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2nd Lt. Walter Edward Hills
British Army 16th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:London
(d.26th June 1917)
Walter Hills, a banker from the City of London, died when his only child, my mother, was not even 2 years old. Sadly my mother, who lived into her 90s, died before I discovered that Walter lies in the British War Cemetery in Croissilles, south east of Arras, Northern France.
Sgt. James Benjamin Hillyer
New Zealand Expeditionary Force A Coy. 1st NZ Rifle Brigade.
from:Riverside
He died on 7/9/72
Gnr. Alfred Hilton
British Army 141st Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Salford
Alfred Hilton enlisted in March 1916. He fought at 1st Battle of Cambrai and was injured in the leg when three comrades were killed in action. He was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. Alfred was demobbed in January 1919, but died in 1924 aged 39 when he fell off scaffolding during the building of Lewis's store in Manchester, leaving a widow and six children.
Pte. Ernest Hilton
British Army 95th Coy. Machine Gun Corps
from:130 Bunhill Row, London
Ernest Hilton was transferred into the Machine Gun Corps from the 5th Battalion, City of London Rifles, a Territorial regiment. He enlisted into the 5th battalion on 1st March 1915, agreeing at the same time to serve outside the United Kingdom. He transferred into the Machine Gun Corps on 26th July 1916, being posted to the BEF in France on 13th August that year. He joined the 95th Company, MGC on 21st August 1916 and remained in France until 11th October 1916, during which period the company saw action on the Somme as part of 95th Brigade, 5th Division. After a period at home, he was posted to the 224th Company MGC, BEF, France on 25th April 1917, remaining out there until 17th September 1917, during which period the company saw action around Arras as part of the 63rd (Naval) Division.
He spent the remainder of the war in Britain, being posted to 15th Company, MGC on 14th March 1918 and posted Category Bii on 29th August 1918. A short attachment to 421 Agricultural Company, Labour Corps, Warrington then followed (26th September to 27th November 1918) before he was posted to 6th Reserve Battalion, MGC on 22nd February 1919. After transfer to the Army Z Reserve on 5th April 1919, he was discharged from the MGC on 20th April 1921, under paragraph 392 (xvia) of King's Regulations "being surplus to military requirements having suffered impairment since entry into the service." He was later awarded a pension, backdated to 5th April 1919, for Neurasthenia (a common diagnosis for "shell shock"), attributable to his war service, with the "degree of disablement" being given as 50%. He was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
Pte. Peter Hilton
British Army 12th Battalion Kings Liverpool Regiment
from:5 Church Place, Everton, Liverpool
(d.25th Sep 1915)
Peter Hilton was the brother of my grandfather and we discovered his story when researching our Hilton family tree. He was born the 27th August 1896 in Everton, Liverpool, the 5th child of a family of 10 children. He had worked as an errand boy and enlisted with the King's Liverpool Regiment on the 1st September 1914 when he was just 18 years and 4 days old. He arrived in France at Bolougne on 27th July 1915 and then on to the Fleurbaix area for trench familiarisation. He was killed here on 25th September 1915 just 2 months after arriving in France. He is buried in the Rue-Pettillon Military Cemetry in Fleurbaix and there is a memorial headstone to him in Anfield cemetery in liverpool.
We have no photographs or family stories of him so it is lovely to tell his story here and acknowledge the service he gave to his country.
Peter Hilton
British Army D Bty. 256th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:St Helens
(d.14th May 1918)
A/Cpl. Thomas Hilton MM
British Army 25th Btn. C Coy. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:34 William Street, Hebburn
(d.1st July 1916)
Pte. Charles Edward Himsworth
British Army 1st Btn. C Coy. West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Rotherham
(d.26th August 1916)
Pte Charles Himsworth was killed by a shell during trench digging detail in the village of Englebelmer the British had taken from the Germans. However, a German soldier had stayed in the clock tower and would move the clock hands to alert that troops had gone back to the trenches, they would then shell them. Records say that on 26th of August 1916 one man was wounded, this was Charles and he died of his wounds at a dressing station. He is buried in Knightsbridge CWGC Mesnil Martinsaart. He was 34 years old from Rotherham and left a widow Martha and son George.
L/Cpl. Fred Augustus Hinch
British Army Depot Royal Irish Rifles
from:Celbridge
(d.28th November 1916)
Lance Corporal Hinch was the Son of William and Susan Hinch, of Celbridge.
He was 26 when he died and he is buried in no 98 in the new ground of the Donaghcumper Cemetery, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
Cpl. George Edmund Hinch
British Army 7th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Attercliffe, Sheffield
(d.9th Feb 1917)
George Hinch was my Great Uncle, he was killed on the 9th of February 1917, the sad thing about it was that his brother James was killed on the First Day of the Somme Offensive. They were the son's of John Milton Hinch and Anice Cossy Hinch, from Sheffield.
Pte. James North Hinch
British Army 9th Btn. King`s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Attercliffe, Sheffield
(d.1st Jul 1916)
James Hinch was my Great Uncle, he died at the age of 40, and is remembered along with his brother George, on the Thiepval Memorial, sons of John Milton Hinch and Anice Cossy Hinch, James was the husband of Georgina Hinch of 41 Faraden Road, Attercliffe, Sheffield.
Pte. William Hinchcliffe
British Army 9th Btn., D Coy. Royal Fusiliers
from:Dewsbury, Yorkshire
Pte. William John Hinchcliffe
British Army D Company, 9th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Dewsbury
William Hinchcliffe served with D Company, 9th Royal Fusiliers.
Pte. Joseph Hinchliffe
British Army 3rd (Reserve) Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Derby
Joseph Hinchliffe was transferred to hospital on the 29th December 1917 with an inflamed middle ear. He was finally discharged on 14th May 1918.
Pte. Thomas Hind
British Army 24 Protection Company Royal Defence Corps
from:Pontlottyn, Glamorganshire
(d.11th Jul 1916)
Thomas Hind died aged 46 of gall stones & toxaemia.
2nd Lt. Kenneth Hinde
British Army 5th Btn. Kings Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment
from:West Kirby, Cheshire
(d.3rd Feb 1917)
Kenneth Hinde served initially with the 61st Field Ambulance, RAMC and was wounded during February 1916 in the Ypres salient. On 21st of November 1916, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the King's Own. At age 21, he was killed by enemy artillery fire on 3rd of February 1917.
Gnr. Harold Hindle
British Army 173rd Brigade, B Bty Royal Field Artillery
(d.6th February 1917)
Harold Hindle was 23 when he died. He is buried in Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Grave II.C.14A.
Cpl. John Hindle
British Army 11th Battalion East Lancashire Regiment
from:Haslingden, Lancashire
(d.1st July 1916)
John Hindle was my paternal grandfather's brother and I can't remember there being any stories except that he died in WWI. I found the details on checking UK, Soldiers who had died in the Great War. I would like to find out more and am continuing to 'dig'.
Pte. Charles Hindley
British Army 2nd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
from:100 Bayswater Road, Leeds
(d.5th Feb 1915)
Today 5th Feb 2014 is the centenary 'anniversary' death of Charles Hindley my Great Great Uncle. It is strange to think of him as being a great great uncle when images of an elderly man would come to mind. Charles Hindley didn't get 'old' and he has no direct descendants to remember him for when he died he was 24 years old and single.
Charles Hindley was born in Leeds, Yorkshire to Tom Hindley and Rebecca Pinkney on the 27 Apr 1890. He was the 8th child from 12 and the second of 3 sons, all of whom served for King & Country. Tom Hindley, his father was a bricklayer who died in a tragic accident while working 'up North' in Sunderland in 1905. Life would not have been easy for his mother, Rebecca, who had also suffered the loss of 4 of her children.
Both Charles and his brother, Henry Thomas Hindley (my Great Grandfather), appear to have 'joined' up relatively early both opting for the West Yorkshire Battalion, Charles to the 2nd Btn. and Henry initially to the 1st Btn. Military records (service and pension) for both brothers are 'missing', most likely destroyed after a fire during WW2 bombings.
However, from photographs and regiment records along with medals I can assume that when war broke out Charles was serving in Malta. On the 14 September 1914 his regiment embarked for the UK landing at Southampton on the 25 September 1914 where they joined with the 23rd Bde. 8th Div at Hursley Park, Winchester. Charles and the 2nd West Yks were posted to France and arrived in Le Havre on the 5 Nov 1914.
Charles Hindley was shot through the head and died instantly in France on February 5th 1915 near Lille and is buried in Rue-Du-Bacquerot No.1 Military Cemetery, Laventie. This is a small cemetery at the back of a farm, well cared for by the C.W.G.C. I was fortunate enough to have visited a couple of years ago and wish that I could have been there today.
Charles death was recorded in the local newspaper and from it came some 'comforting' news. Corp. Henry Thomas Hindley wrote home to his family that Charles had died painlessly and that on the 23rd Dec 1914 the two brothers had met accidentally in the trenches. They hadn't seen each other for 5 years! I wonder if they took part in one of the Christmas truce football matches? Henry Thomas Hindley survived the war as did his younger brother Harold Hindley.
To Charles Hindley, today I remember you and so long as there is breath in me I shall not forget.
Capt. J. Hindley
British Army 17th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps
Pte. Hector Pretoria Hindmarsh
Australian Imperial Force 37th Btn.
from:Adelaide, South Australia
(d.8th Jun 1917)
Hector Pretoria Hindmarsh was born on March 18th 1900 at 24 Rectory Road, Fulham, London and was baptised on May 6th 1900 at St. Dionis Church, Parsons Green, Fulham. He was the fourth son and seventh sibling of Thomas Henry Hindmarsh (Snr.) and Elizabeth Adelaide (nee Clarke). Hector was named Pretoria because his uncle, George Ralph Hindmarsh, was in the British Army fighting in the Boer War in South Africa and Pretoria.On September 1st 1911, Thomas Henry and Elizabeth Adelaide Hindmarsh sailed from Tilbury Docks with most of their young family, for re-settlement in South Australia. Hector was aged 11. The family sailed on the R.M.S. Orsova steamship in Third Class. The steamer arrived at Port Adelaide on November 7th 1911.
On 18th June 1916, aged 16 ½, Hector Pretoria Hindmarsh enlisted in the Army. He enlisted at Adelaide, and falsified his age at enlistment stating that he was aged 18 years and 4 months. Hector probably joined to experience more of the world and escape the boring life of a labourer.Hector was 5 feet 7 ½ inches tall and weighed 126 lbs. He had brown eyes and brown hair. He had no scars and he was of Church of England religion.
At first, Private Hindmarsh served with the 2nd Depot Battalion, ‘C’ Company, at Mitcham, in Adelaide. He stated that he had served in the Cadets (this is unsubstantiated). On August 28th 1916, Private Hindmarsh sailed on the A68 HMAT Anchises to England, arriving in Plymouth on September 11th. He was mustered with 3/43rd Infantry Battalion from 10th August for three months service.
Hector briefly joined the 43rd Battalion at Lark Hill, on the Salisbury Plain near Stonehenge. There Hector commenced training in trench warfare, at nearby Bustard and Durrington. While there, Private Hector Hindmarsh also completed route marches and regular Sunday church Parades. He also received equipment and clothing up-grades.
On September 27, the 43rd Battalion was reviewed by King George V, at Bulford. After the next three days, Divisional matches were held in sports like ‘Aussie Rules’ football, cricket, athletics and tug of war. When weekend leave was granted, Hector may have visited Stonehenge or the villages of Bulford and Durrington. One month later, on November 11th 1916, Hector was re-mustered to the 37th Infantry Battalion and this meant he relocated at Lark Hill, to the 37th Battalion, sited nearby. Hector had little time in getting to know his new troop of soldiers. Shortly afterwards, on November 22nd, he was embarked by ship to France with the Infantry Battalion to the Western Front. The 37th Battalion was next moved to Ypres area, in Belgium.
On June 8th 1917 Hector Hindmarsh was killed in action at Messines, Belgium. Private Hector was a 3rd Reinforcement for the 37th Battalion. He was aged 17 ¼ years old and he had served just over one year of service in the 3rd Division 1st A.I.F, and had been on the front line for just over 6 months. An artillery shell burst alongside him and the shock and concussion from the explosion killed him outright. His body did not show the slightest sign of injury, as mentioned in a letter received from Lieutenant Colonel E. Thregold.
Private Hector Pretoria Hindmarsh was buried at the Strand Military Cemetery, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, in Belgium, ANZAC Section, 3rd Echelon: Plot 5, Row A, Grave 12. He is commemorated on the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, on the ‘Wall of Rememberance’. His father received his war service medals: A British War Medal and Victory Medal. His death had a sobering effect upon his family.
Isabella Hindmarsh
Voluntary Aid Detachment
from:Northumberland
Isabella Hindmarsh was my mother's aunt, she served with the VAD but I have very little more information.
Thomas William Hindmarsh
Army 2nd Btn. Durham Light Infantry
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Pte. Thomas Hindmore
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Blaydon
(d.1st July 1916)
Thomas Hindmore lies in Cerissy Gailly Cemetery
Cpl. L. Hindo
Australian Imperial Force. att. 3rd Salvage Coy. 35th Btn.Corps
Cpl. Sidney George Hindom
British Army 24th Btn Royal Fusiliers
from:Torquay
Sidney Hindom was taken prisoner after being wounded at Gullemont in July or August 1915. He was imprisoned at Hamelburg and repatriated to Holland 13th June 1918. A keen diver, he became the south coast diving champion regularly diving from the top of Thatcher rock off Torquay. He never fully recovered from his wound and he died in Exeter hospital in 1939.
Cpl. Sydney George Hindom
British Army 24th (2nd Sportsmans) Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Torquay
Sydney Hindom was the south coast high diving champion and gave lots of exhibition dives at fetes etc. In those days it was called fancy diving.
He joined up late in life and was wounded and captured at Guillemont on 1st August 1916. He was imprisoned at Hamelberg and was repatriated in June 1918.
He married in 1920 and had one son and two daughters and one stepdaughter. He died in 1939 as a result of his war wound.
Pte. Harold Manning Hinds
British Army 12th (County of London Rangers) Btn. London Regiment
My father in Law, Harold Manning Hinds volunteered shortly after the declaration of WW1 and in Sept 1914 was serving with the 12th Battalion London Regt. He eventually found himself on the SS Irvinia a former liner which was torpedoed and sunk off Greece on 1st January 1914. He survived and was taken intitally to Crete but ended up in Egypt on 12th January and it would seem he was then in the 19th Battalion the Rifles, with a new number of 207650. Sometime in 1917 he told me he was informed that he was to be transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and his number became 405815. He later served in Palestine with 113 Sqn RAF and was discharged in 1919.
We would love to know more about him if you have any information. I have a few photos of soldiers in the water after the sinking of the Irvinia and some on board a rescue ship
Cpl. John Hinds
British Army 27th (4th Tyneside Irish) Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Sherburn Hill
(d.28th Apr 1917)
Cpl. L. Hinds
Australian Imperial Force. att. 3rd Salvage Coy. 35th Btn.
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