Herbert Roy (Dick) HINDLE

HINDLE, Herbert Roy

Service Number: WX8869
Enlisted: 25 October 1940
Last Rank: Lance Corporal
Last Unit: 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born: Pindar, WA, 17 April 1904
Home Town: Palmyra, Melville, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Store Foreman
Died: Rock Fall at Copper mine, Sumitomo Besshi Copper Mine, Yamane, Shikoku Island, Japan, 30 September 1944, aged 40 years
Cemetery: Labuan War Cemetery
Plot H, Row D, Grave 2
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement WX8869

World War 1 Service

25 Oct 1940: Enlisted Lance Corporal, WX8869, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Claremont, WA

World War 2 Service

25 Oct 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, WX8869, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of William Lawrence and Bridget Emily HINDLE

Soldier aged 40 years, was killed by a fall of rock at Sumitomo Besshi copper mine at Yamane on Shikoku Island Japan on 30.9.1944. His body was cremated and his ashes were carried as far as Labuan Island.
Records show ‘Died after leg severed by fall of stone. (Japanese records state ‘Contusion of the head’).