History while in the forces
May 1915: wounded at Festubert08 1915: appointed 2nd Lieutenant 5th King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
Mar 1916: appointed 1st Lieutenant
May 1916: seconded to Machine Gun Corps
Jan 1917: invalided home, temporarily
Oct 1917: proceeded to France again with No 4 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps
- Surname
- Hinton
- Forename
- William Edward
- Rating or rank
- Lieutenant
- Regiment or Other Unit
- 60th Machine Gun Co 20th Division
- Branch
- Dale Street, Liverpool
- Date of Birth
- 14 Sep 1878
- Date of birth
- 1878
- Date of Entering Bank's Service
- 22 Jul 1900
- Date of Joining HM Forces
- 03 Sep 1914
