Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History BookKhedive's Star), and in the South African War, 1899-1902 (Queen's
medal with three clasps, "Tugela Heights," "Relief of Ladysmith,"
"Transvaal," and King's medal with two clasps, "South Africa, 1901,"
"1902"), and after leaving the Colours in 1903, was nine years in
the Reserve, and was employed during that period as a postman in
Winkfield village; went to Canada, 1912, and settled at Amherst, Nova
Scotia; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Canadian
Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and came over with the first
contingent, Oct. 1914; went to France, Feb. 1915, and was killed
in action near Festubert, 21 May following. Buried at Festubert.
He _m._ at Cranbourne, Winkfield, 1 June, 1903, Kate (Lovel
Road, Winkfield, near Windsor), dau. of the late William Sharpe, of
Cranbourne, Winkfield, and had three children: Thomas William Selby,
_b._ 8 July, 1905; John Ernest, _b._ 11 Sept. 1912; and
Joyce, _b._ 11 March, 1908.
[Illustration: =Thomas J. S. Hillyer.=]
=HILSON, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Private, No. 9910, 3rd Battn. Coldstream
Guards, _s._ of Joshua Thomas Hilson, of 44, Middle Street North,
Driffield, co. York, formerly Royal Marine Artillery, by his wife,
Harriet, dau. of William Burriell; _b._ Driffield, co. York, 29
April, 1895; educ. National School there; enlisted 1 Jan. 1913; went to
France, Aug. 1914; died of wounds in No. 4 Clearing Station, Lillers,
24 Dec. 1914, and was buried in the cemetery there; _unm._
=HILTON, HERBERT PHILIP=, Capt., 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt.,
eldest _s._ of Ernest P. Hilton, of 188, Cromwell Road, S.W.;
_b._ Sydenham, 13 Aug. 1873; educ. Malvern College, where he was
in the Cadet Corps, and went to Canada, and served with the North-West
Mounted Police for four years. He then returned to England and studied
for the Bar at the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn. In 1899 he went to
South Africa and joined Roberts' Horse, being given a commission as
2nd Lieut. Middlesex Regt., 19 May, 1901, and promoted Lieut. 12 Oct.
following. He served through that campaign 1899-1902; took part in the
advance on, and relief of, Kimberley; the operations in the Orange
Free State, Feb. to May, 1900, including the actions at Paardeburg
(17-26 Feb.), Poplar Grove, Dreifontein, Karee Siding, Houtnek (Thoba
Mountain), Vet River (5-6 May), and Zand River; operations in the
Transvaal, May-June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg,
Pretoria, and Diamond Hill (11-12 June); operations in the Transvaal,
west of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900; including actions at Zilkaats
Nek, Elands River (4-16 Aug.), and Venterstroom (7-9 Aug.); operations
in the Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at
Lindley (26 June), Bethlehem (6-7 July), and Wittebergen (1-29 July);
operations in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony, 30 Nov. 1900 to 31
May, 1902, and those on the Zululand Frontier of Natal, Sept. and Oct.
1901, and was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 16 April, 1901]
and awarded the Queen's medal with six clasps and the King's medal with
two clasps. He was with his regt. in India when the European War broke
out, and returned to England in Dec. 1914; went to France the following
Jan., and was killed in action, near Ypres, 14 Feb. 1915. He _m._
at Singapore, 1911, Hylda (53, Kenilsworth Avenue, Wimbledon Park),
dau. of (--), and had three children.
=HILTON, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4658), S.S.
103860, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of
Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=HILTON, WILLIAM ERNEST=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 16301, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=HINDMARSH, ALBERT=, Private, No. 10268, 1st Battn. Coldstream
Guards, 4th _s._ of the late Charles Hindmarsh, Fireman,
Monkwearmouth Colliery, by his wife, Mary (28, Fulwell Road,
Sunderland), dau. of James Archibald; _b._ Southwick-on-Wear,
co. Durham, 25 Oct. 1893; educ. Southwick Board School; was a Miner,
Monkwearmouth, enlisted 7 Aug. 1913; went to France, 10 Aug. 1914,
and was killed in action at Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914; _unm._ His
four brothers: Robert Hindmarsh, Private, No. 5454, 3rd Durham L.I.;
William, Private, 14th Durham L.I.; John Hindmarsh, Driver, No. 690,
R.G.A.; and Arthur Hindmarsh, Private, No. 15488, 14th Durham L.I.
(wounded), are all on active service; and his brother-in-law, Thomas
Elliott, Private, No. 14373, 10th Yorks, was killed in action.
[Illustration: =Albert Hindmarsh.=]
=HINGSTON, FREDERIC LEONARD=, Capt., 1st Battn. Duke of Cornwall's
Light Infantry, only _s._ of the late Frederic Hingston, of
Cardiff, Banker, by his wife, Mary (St. Oswald's, Selwyn Road,
Eastbourne), dau. of Joseph Rome; _b._ Leicester, 6 June, 1877;
educ. Llandaff Cathedral School and Malvern College; gazetted 2nd
Lieut. from the Militia to the Duke of Cornwall's L.I., 18 Oct. 1899,
and promoted Lieut. 13 May, 1901, and Capt. 13 Feb. 1909; served in
the South African War, 1900-1, and took part in the actions at Poplar
Grove, Driefontein, Vet River, Zand River, Johannesburg, Pretoria,
Diamond Hill and Belfast (mentioned in Despatches and Queen's medal
with six clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and
Flanders, 11 March to 26 April, 1915, and was killed in action on
the latter date, during the second Battle of Ypres. The General
commanding the Brigade wrote to Capt. Hingston's widow: "I wanted,
as Brigadier-General Commanding the Brigade, to tell you how very
deeply and sincerely I sympathise with you in the heavy blow that has
fallen upon you. Your husband belonged to a great Regt. which has
given consistently splendid service throughout the campaign, and, if
I may say so, he was one of the finest officers of a fine Regt. I had
often spoken to your husband on the occasions of my frequent visits to
the trenches, and had always been much struck by his earnestness and
thoroughness, and by the keen interest which he took in all matters
relating to his company and his men. To them I know his loss is a
severe one, as it is indeed to all of us"; and a friend ("Eastbourne
Gazette," 26 May, 1915): "He was good and thorough in whatever he
undertook. As an athlete he was just what a British Officer should be,
strong, active, bold, enduring and honourable. In Switzerland he was
well known as a remarkable fine 'ski-er.' In the winter, 1913-14, he
had won the British Ski-ing Association Cup at Wengen; and he had won
other trophies at this winter sport as well as at ice-hockey, at which
he was an adept. He was also a keen lawn tennis player and golfer."
Capt. Hingston _m._ at St. James', Piccadilly, 30 Nov. 1911,
Essy, yst. dau. of the late Col. William Charles Plant, Indian Army;
_s.p._
=HINMAN, ARTHUR GURR=, Lieut., 15th Battn., 4th Brigade,
Australian Imperial Force, 2nd _s._ of Arthur Hinman, of Moina,
Elphin Road, Launceston, Tasmania, by his wife, Lucy Maud, dau. of
William Gurr, of Launceston; _b._ Newstead, Launceston, Tasmania,
19 June, 1890; educ. at Launceston Chur |