219911 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
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