HINCKS, Alexander Richard
| Service Number: | 797 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 November 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hartley Vale, New South Wales, Australia, 13 November 1886 |
| Home Town: | Abermain, Cessnock, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Merewether Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Messines, Belgium, 7 June 1917, aged 30 years |
| Cemetery: |
Mud Corner Cemetery, Wallonie, Belgium Plot I, Row A, Grave II |
| Memorials: | Abermain War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Cessnock Abermain Comforts Fund Pictorial Honour Roll, Swansea Catherine Hill Bay Cornstalk Lodge No 226 G.U.O.F.G Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Nov 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 797, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 797, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 797, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 7th June 1917, Private Alexander Richard Hincks, 35th Battalion (Reg No-797), miner from Abermain, New South Wales, was Killed in Action during the Battle of Messines, age 30. Cause of death unknown.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Hartley Vale, New South Wales on the 13th November 1886 to Thomas Henry (died 8.3.1910, Newcastle Hospital, N.S.W. as HICKS, age 48 ), and Annie Herd Hincks (died 3.3.1917, Newcastle, N.S.W., as HARRIS, age 52, Alex enlisted on the 27th November 1915 at West Maitland, N.S.W.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127157029 - report that Alex had enlisted.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A24 Benalla on the 1st May 1916.
Admitted 10th Australian Field Ambulance 19.1.1917 (cut left hand).
Mr. Hincks is resting at Mud Corner British Cemetery, Belgium. Plot I Row A Grave 11.
Place of Association - Cardiff, New South Wales, Australia.
Alex’s name has also been inscribed on the Abermain War Memorial, Cessnock Abermain Comforts Fund Pictorial Honour Roll, Book of Gold, Catherine Hill Bay Cornstalk Lodge G.U.O.F.G. Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name not inscribed on the Cardiff RSL World War One Memorial or the Merewether Public School Honour Board.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised Hincks gravesite in remembrance of the service and supreme sacrifice of his son for God, King & Country. METHODIST 2 (PRIMITIVE) 5 SE. 57.
Younger brother Henry (born 8.9.1894, Minmi, N.S.W., married clipper from John Street, Abermain, New South Wales, enlisted 17.1.1916, 34th Battalion, Reg No-455, RTA 12.8.1919, died 19.4.1931, Abermain, N.S.W., age 36, from John Street, Abermain, N.S.W., laid to rest Kurri Kurri General Cemetery, not officially commemorated.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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