HIND, Joseph
| Service Number: | 3143 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 September 1915, Blackboy Hill |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Ropsley, Lincolnshire, England, 1897 |
| Home Town: | Manjimup, Manjimup, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Ropsley Church of England Primary School, Lincolnshire, England |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 3 May 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Manjimup War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3143, Blackboy Hill | |
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| 18 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 3143, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 3143, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Medic, Fremantle | |
| 6 Nov 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3143, 28th Infantry Battalion, 'The Winter Offensive' - Flers/Gueudecourt winter of 1916/17 | |
| 3 May 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3143, Bullecourt (Second) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Births Mar 1897 Hind Joseph Grantham 7a 500
The district Grantham spans the boundaries of the counties of Lincolnshire and Leicestershire.
Biography
Joseph Hind was one of 10 children born to Joseph Taylor Hind and Esther Jenkinson, in the small Lincolnshire village of Ropsley. He was born in 1897, and emigrated to West Australia and the small town of Manjimup in about 1912, where he joined his father and some brothers and sisters on a farm just west of the town. He enlisted in about January 1916, in the 28th Batt. He was killed on the 3rd of May 1917 at Bullecourt in France. He has no known grave, but is honoured at the Australian War Memorial at Villers Bretonneux, he is also honoured at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, and the War memorial in the small south west town of Manjimup.
A few years ago I, his great niece visited the village of Ropsley, where I learnt that in the 1990's, a truck had demolished the village War memorial. When it was re-built, the Parish Council, decided to add Joseph's name to their Roll of Honour as even though he had enlisted in Australia, they still thought of him, as "their own". In a way, the boy who had left the village all those years ago, to travel across the world, to Australia, enlisted to fight and was killed in action, had come home. I was quite moved when I saw his name.
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