Service no. 2490
Lance Corporal, London Regiment, 1st/23rd Battalion
Killed in action on 18 September 1916, aged about 26
Born in Portsmouth; lived in Clapham; enlisted in Clapham Junction
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918
HIND, H.V., Corporal, 23rd London Regiment.
Volunteering in August 1914, he was sent to the Western Front in January 1916, and during his service in France, fought at Vimy Ridge and on the Somme. He was killed in the heavy fighting at High Wood on September 16th, 1916, and was entitled to the General Service and Victory Medals.
"Great deeds cannot die."
85, The Chase, Clapham Common, S.W.4
HIND, N., (Miss), Special War Worker
During the war, this lady volunteered her services and was engaged for over two years at the Army Clothing Department at Pimlico. She did good work in the clerical office from October 1917 until January 1920, and carried out her duties in a commendable manner.
85, The Chase, Clapham Common, S.W.4
HIND, S. J. Private, 23rd London Regiment
Volunteering in August 1914, he was drafted to the Western Front in January 1916. During his service in France he fought at Albert, Vimy Ridge, High Wood and on the Somme, and was then invalided home owing to heart trouble. He received medical treatment for about six months, and on recovery served in the Clerical Department of the Record Office at London Wall until his demobilisation in June 1919. He holds the General Service and Victory Medals.
85, The Chase, Clapham Common, S.W.4
The N. Hind cited above was probably Nora Hind.
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Harry Victor Hind, then a 20-year-old library assistant, was living with his family at 7 The Polygon, Clapham. He was one of nine children of George Hind, 49, a house painter from Portsmouth, and Louisa Hind, 46, also from Portsmouth. The children on the return are
Margery Hind, 22, dressmaker
Harry Hind, 20, library assistant
Stanley Hind 18, a clerk
Nora Hind, 15, milliner's apprentice
Queenie Hind, 13
Marion Hind, 8
Two other children, George F.N. Hind, 27, and Nellie Hind, 25, are on the 1901 census, and Dorothy Hind, 24, is on the 1891 census. All were born in Portsmouth.
Stanley James Hind - D.A.H. Disordered Action of the Heart
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