HINCKS, Thomas
| Service Number: | 134 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | New Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 7 June 1893 |
| Home Town: | New Lambton, Lake Macquarie Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | New Lambton Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | 15 February 1969, aged 75 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) L SW. 44. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 134, Mining Corps | |
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| 20 Feb 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 134, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Feb 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 134, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Feb 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 134, Mining Corps, HMAT Ulysses, Sydney | |
| 20 Feb 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 134, Mining Corps, HMAT Ulysses, Sydney | |
| 17 Apr 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 134, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), 2nd MD, medically unfit |
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From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
55 years ago today, on the 17th February 1969, Sapper Thomas Hincks, 1st Australian Tunnelling Company (Reg No-134), miner from Regent Street, New Lambton, New South Wales and Addison Road, New Lambton, N.S.W. and Boolaroo?, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 75. METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) L SW. 44.
Born at New Lambton, New South Wales on the 7th June 1893 to Richard, died 6.2.1954, Toronto, N.S.W., METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) L SW. 44, name not inscribed on headstone plaque and Annie Hincks nee Gray, died 17.5.1951, New Lambton, N.S.W., METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) L SW. 42, of Regent Street, New Lambton, New South Wales and Addison Road, New Lambton, N.S.W.; husband of Mary Catherine Foster Hincks nee Dyer, married 1934, Toronto, N.S.W., died 5.11.1974, Newcastle, N.S.W., age 68?, sleeping at ANGLICAN 3-208. 4 with her parents. Tom enlisted on the 22nd August 1915 with the Mining Corps-No 1 Company at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A38 Ulysses on the 20th February 1916.
Admitted to hospital 26.5.1916 (dental), 3.8.1918 (epididymis, pyrexia, scabies).
Invalided to England 30.8.1918 (trench fever). Report that Tom has been admitted to hospital in England suffering from a high temperature of uncertain origin.
Granted leave from 14.11.1918 to 28.11.1918.
Commenced return to Australia 8.1.1919.
Tom arrived home invalided on the 25th February 1919, being discharged medically unfit on the 17th April 1919.
Mr. Hincks’s name has been inscribed on the New Lambton Public School Roll of Honour, New Lambton War Memorial Gates, Lambton and New Lambton Municipal District Roll of Honor and the Lambton Rose of Australia Lodge G.U.O.O.F. Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at Tom’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
Older brother Cecil William (born 17.5.1891, Adamstown, New South Wales, miner from Regent Street, New Lambton, New South Wales, father of one (Thelma, born 24.10.1916, New Lambton, N.S.W.), enlisted 9.1.1916, 35th Battalion, Reg No-1486, KIA 7.6.1917, Battle of Messines, age 26, resting at Strand Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot VIII Row F Grave 1), memorialised at the gravesite of Annie Maria Moxon nee Dean (died 16.3.1928, Hamilton, N.S.W., age 67, sleeping at BAPTIST F SE. 35, same location as brother-in-law Henry Hopton (born 30.8.1887, Lambton, New South Wales, labourer from Bundaberg, Queensland, enlisted 6.4.1916, 15th Battalion, Reg No-6277, KIA 4.7.1918, age 30, Battle of Hamel, resting at Crucifix Corner Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, France. Plot X Row B Grave 6.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
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Lest We Forget.
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