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Arthur Cecil Hinton (1895–1918)

 

Derbyshire Courier 16 Feb 1918

 

Newspaper Reports

Ripley and Heanor News and Ilkeston Division Free Press, 15 March 1918
BRAVE SHERWOOD’S SAD DEATH
Private Arthur Cecil Hinton, Sawmills, Sherwood Foresters
The sad intelligence has been received at Sawmills of the death from wounds on the Western front of Pte. Arthur Cecil Hinton, Notts and Derbys., second son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Hinton of Staveley. Deceased, at the time he volunteered, was living along with a married sister Mrs George Nind, Sawmills previous to which he lived with his grandparents Mr and Mrs William Flint at Wingfield Park Farm, and later worked for Mr Evans, Bullbridge Hill and at Ambergate lime kilns. He saw active service in the Dardanelles and was in the evacuation of the peninsula going to Egypt afterwards, and was then sent direct to the Western front, where he passed through many actions scatheless up to eight or nine months ago when he was wounded in the ankle later he was badly wounded in the arm chest and leg, the latter having to be amputated to which injuries he succumbed.

Notes: Steve Morse
[John Stephen Morse author of "9th Service Battalion The Sherwood Foresters: The Notts and Derby Regiment During the First Word War" TOMMIES GUIDES 2007 (ISBN 0955569814)]
Arthur Hinton started off in the 9th battalion, arriving in January 1916 (although posting looks like he arrived Imbros 18/9/1915).It seems as though he was wounded in ankle on 10 June 1917 - records show wounded 10/6/1917 and hospital by 13/6/1917 which is consistent with the Messines offensive. He may of been wounded late on the 9th as this was our costliest day.
Excerpts from the Battalion Diary:

June 9th –
12.10 am – Rations arrived and sent up. Intermittent and pretty heavy shelling of 0 21 central with 5.9s continually throughout the night. Capt Gregory reported killed while in Forester post. 2/Lt Cook killed in ODOUR TRENCH about the same time.
June 10th –
11 am arranged relief with 7th King’s Own.
10.20 pm – Both sides opened heavy barrage – Germans sending up many double star red lights and green lights. The enemy barrage remained intense till 11-40 pm, both the artillery and Brigade wires were cut (telephone) Battalion line to front Coys. Remained intact. The barrage died down about 12.15 am on June 11th.
(Battalion relieved by 3.40am on 11th June)

It is difficult to pinpoint when he was wounded a second time. There were Casualty Clearing Stations (CCS) in Grevillers which used the cemetery – 29; 3 and 45 CCS. The 2nd Battalion moved into the line near Fremicourt on 17th January 1918 and apparently the outgoing unit said that it was a quiet front and they had on received one casualty in two tours of duty. The enemy put down a barrage on the first night, killing five men and wounding two. The battalion did working parties from 26 January although despite ‘air bombing’ over the back areas, the battalion suffered no loss from them. Of course having to do working parties near or at the front line would no doubt led to injuries, if not deaths.

Army Service Record
13547, Arthur Cecil Hinton Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) aged 20 yr and 41 days, a labourer enlisted 26 August 1914. Born at Staveley. He was 5ft 3in tall and weighed 135lb; grey eyes and light hair; a Congregationalist; scar on left shoulder blade
26.09.14 Attested
27.08.14 Posted
18.09.15 Posted Med. 9th Expeditionary Force
19.01.16 Embarked Imbros
03.04.16 Disembarked Alexandria
28.06.16 Embarked BEF
09.06.17 Wounded in action
13.06.17 Middlesex War Hospital with shell wound until 23.07.17 then transferred to another hospital until 31.07.17
23.10.17 Embarked Folkestone, 9th Bn Sherwood Foresters
10.08.17 Posted to Command Depot
14.10.17 Posted
Awarded the British War and Victory medals

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Soldier's Effects
Hinton Arthur Cecil; 2nd Bn Notts & Derby, Pte, 13547; 7.2.18 wounds France;
Credit £22 7s 4d
11.5.18 mother sole legt. Elizabeth £22 7s 4d
War Gratuity £16
19.11.19 mother sole legt. Elizabeth £16

Arthur Cecil Hinton is on the Fritchley Congregational Chapel Roll of Honour and also the War Memorial in Smith's Burial Ground, Wingfield Park

CENSUS INFORMATION

1901: Hartington Cottage, Staveley

Forename	Surname	Relationship	Age	Occupation	Where born
Joseph	Hinton	Head	42	Coal labourer below ground	Staffs
Elizabeth	Hinton	wife	38		Alfreton
Ethel	Hinton	daughter	13		Staveley
Harold	Hinton	son	0	Apprentice Tailors machinist	Staveley
Arthur C	Hinton	son	6		Staveley
Beatrice M	Hinton	daughter	4		Staveley
Percy W	Hinton	son	2		Staveley

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1911: Wingfield Park

Forename	Surname	Relationship	Age	Occupation	Where born
William	Flint	Head	73	Farmer	Colston Basset, Notts
Ann	Flint	wife	74	Farmer's wife	Dry Doddington, Lincs
Arthur Cecil	Hinton	grandson	16	Farm servant	Staveley
Harold	Hinton	grandson	19	Coal miner pont driver below ground	Staveley

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