HINSBY, Montague Golden
| Service Number: | NX76219 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 July 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Chaplains' Department |
| Born: | London, England, 24 September 1886 |
| Home Town: | Leichhardt, Leichhardt, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Church of England Clerk in Holy Orders |
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World War 1 Service
| 1 Aug 1917: | Involvement Australian Army Chaplains' Department, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
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| 1 Aug 1917: | Embarked Australian Army Chaplains' Department, HMAT Medic, Sydney |
World War 2 Service
| 24 Jul 1941: | Enlisted NX76219 | |
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| 24 Jul 1941: | Enlisted NX76219 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
THE REV. M.S. HINSBY
IN PENRITH (England.)
The following extracts are taken from a Penrith (Eng.) newspaper: —Penrlth on Tuesday entertained an Australian rector of the Church of England. The visitor, who was the guest for the moment of Canon Byard, was the Rev. M. G. Hinsby, the rector of Penrith, New South Wales, the place where the Penrith children's Union Jacks came from. Needless to say, I was delighted to meet him. Mr. Hinsby has been a chaplain with the Australian army in France for two years, and being momentarily in London, prior to going home, he decided that it was no use going back to his own Penrith without visiting the old original after which his living Is named. So he travelled through the Right to Penrith, and through then night back again, for the pleasure of spending a flying hour or two in our Penrith. Needless to say, with Canon Byard as cicerone, that visit was as pleasant as it could be made in the brief time at his disposal. Canon Byard showed him the local sights, introduced him to those in authority, and whisked him off to Patterdale for a glimpse of that paradise in June. A young man on the sunny side of life the rector has a genial and free way with him. which is very charming. He was frankly Interested in Penrith and its ancient church, that repository of all the ages; he greatly admired the scenery round Penrith, and was evidently prepared to admire her people. The Penrith 'down under' is one of the oldest Australian settlements, 34 miles from Sydney, but he was unable to say how it came by its name or whether it was founded by some family of settlers from our Penrith. Tho patron saint of his own church is St. Stephen, when by all the rules of such a settlement It ought to have been St. Andrew. Mr. Hinsby very kindly consented to carry and convey our cordial greetings to our confrere in the Penrith in the southern seas. The war has been responsible for bringing together those from the far~away corners of the earth who would never otherwise have come within speaking distance except perhaps as ships that pass in the night.
Nepean Times Saturday 09 August 1919 page 1s