HINTON, Ernest Henry
| Service Number: | 5035 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 31 January 1916, Enlisted at Casula |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 1st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Young, New South Wales, Australia, December 1891 |
| Home Town: | Young, Young, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Shunter |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 2 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Young Pitstone Honor Roll, Young St. John the Evangelist Church Great War Memorial Window |
World War 1 Service
| 31 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5035, 1st Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Casula | |
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| 5 Jul 1916: | Involvement Private, 5035, 20th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ajana embarkation_ship_number: A31 public_note: '' | |
| 5 Jul 1916: | Embarked Private, 5035, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ajana, Sydney | |
| 16 Mar 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 21st Infantry Battalion, Promoted to Corporal by August. | |
| 2 Oct 1917: | Involvement Corporal, 5035, 1st Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 5035 awm_unit: 1 Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-10-02 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Ernest Henry HINTON (Service Number 5035) was born about December 1891 at Young. He states as his ‘calling’ on his Attestation Papers that he was a ‘Shunter on the NSWG. Railways’. When he enlisted at Casula on 31st January 1916, he was unmarried and gave his father, living at Tubbul via Young, as his next of kin.
Hinton left Australia from Sydney aboard HMAT ‘Ajana’ on 5th July 1916 and reached Plymouth (England) on 31st August 1916. In October he went to France and was taken on the strength of the 1st Battalion on 10th November. He attended the Gas School in February and on 16th March 1917 was promoted to be a Lance Corporal. In May he attended the 1st Australian Divisional School and in June the Sniping School.
By August he had been promoted to Corporal.
On 2nd October 1917 he was reported as being wounded in action, but this was changed to killed in action the next day.
Private E O’Shea (7021) reported being with Hinton at Menin Road in front of Polygon Wood.
‘We were returning when day broke & Fritz shelled us & we scattered. Hinton was the only man that failed to get back. It was reported that he was killed. I do not know where he was buried.’
Hinton does not have a known grave. His name is recorded on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.