Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lance Corporal E. J. Hinde, 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, who was killed in action at St. Yves, near Messines, on 4 November 1914

1914 Star, with copy clasp (7872 Pte. E. J. Hind [sic]. 2/Lan: Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (7872 Pte. E. J. Hinde. Lan. Fus.) good very fine (3) £200-£240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Barry Hobbs Collection of Great War Medals.

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Edmond John Hinde was born in 1878 at Pendleton, Lancashire and attested for the Lancashire Fusiliers at Manchester in February 1900. Having been mobilized on the outbreak of the Great War, he served with the 2nd Battalion on the Western Front from 7 October 1914. After seeing heavy fighting at Meteren and Le Touquet in October during the Battle of Armentières, the Battalion took over trenches on 2 November at St. Yves where Lance Corporal Hinde was killed by shelling on 4 November. Before moving on to Ploegseert Wood on 6 November, shelling had cost the battalion 1 officer and 4 other ranks killed and 19 other ranks wounded.

He was the son of John and Ida Hinde and the husband of Mary Hinde and, having no known grave, is commemorated on the Ploeegsteert Memorial, Belgium. He is also remembered on a memorial at the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Latchford, Cheshire.