Name
William Biddulph Hind
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/01/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
18483
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers & Royal Garrison Artillery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BENGEO (HOLY TRINITY) CHURCHYARD
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial, Bengeo War Memorial Plaque, Holy Trinity Church, Bengeo
Pre War
William Biddulph Hind son of Thomas Dyer Hind and his wife Lily.
Additional Information
Not found on CWGC. The family have told us that he was home on leave with his parents in Bengeo when he died, about 2 weeks after he died the military came to get him as AWOL and his father directed them to the graveyard. His father was a master gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery.
He person headstone (not CWGC) bears the inscription:
"WILLIAM BIDDULPH HIND LATE SARGE INNIS. FUSL AND R.G.A. DIED JANUARY 26TH 1916 AGED 21 YEARS.
SERVED HIS KING AND COUNTRY. SERVANT OF GOD, WELL DONE.
“ONLY AFTER REMOVED AND THAT STEP INTO BLISS OUR OWN SON DEARLY LOVED WHOM HERE ON EARTH WE MISS.”
The headstone also refers to his father, Thomas Hind (died 1927) and Annie Maria Hind (died 1960).
Acknowledgments
Terry & Glenis Collins, Marilyn Taylor, Jonty Wild
