Bertie HINCKS

HINCKS, Bertie

Service Number: 4135
Enlisted: 1 September 1915
Last Rank: Lance Corporal
Last Unit: 17th Infantry Battalion
Born: Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 1894
Home Town: New Lambton, Lake Macquarie Shire, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Cleaner
Died: Natural causes, Islington, New South Wales, Australia, 7 February 1974
Cemetery: Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW
Memorials: N.S.W.G.R. Loco Depot Port Waratah HR
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World War 1 Service

1 Sep 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4135, 17th Infantry Battalion
8 Mar 1916: Involvement Private, 4135, 17th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Star of England embarkation_ship_number: A15 public_note: ''
8 Mar 1916: Embarked Private, 4135, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Star of England, Sydney
1 Sep 1917: Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 17th Infantry Battalion
9 Oct 1917: Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 4135, 17th Infantry Battalion, 1st Passchendaele, SW right arm and head - MU return to Australia
5 May 1918: Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 4135, 17th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD - wounding Passchendaele

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery 
 
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting peacefully at Sandgate Cemetery.

47 years ago today, on the 11th February 1974, Lance Corporal Bertie Hincks, 17th Battalion (Reg No-4135), cleaner from 186 Maitland Road, Islington, New South Wales and 26 Errington Avenue, New Lambton, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 80. CATHOLIC 1-24. 15.

Born 1894 at Lambton, New South Wales to Timothy John and Margaret J Hincks; husband of Ruby Agnes Hincks nee O'Connell (married 12.2.1916, Hamilton, N.S.W., died 1962), Bertie enlisted September 1915 at Newcastle, N.S.W.

Wounded in action - 9.10.1917 (GSW head, compound fracture of right arm), Bertie returned home February 1918, being discharged medically unfit on the 9th May 1919.

Mr Hincks’s name has been inscribed on the New Lambton War Memorial Gates, Lambton/New Lambton Municipal District Roll of Honor, New Lambton Public School Roll of Honour (unveiled on the 13th December 1917, 83 names now inscribed), Lambton Rose of Australia Lodge G.U.O.O.F. Roll of Honour, Port Waratah Locomotive Depot Roll of Honour and the Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.

I have placed poppies at Bertie’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King and Country.

Mr Hincks has been recognised with a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque at the New South Wales Garden of Remembrance, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney and a Plaque at the gravesite.
Lest We Forget.

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