HINES, Eric Arthur
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Rank:
Sergeant
Unit / Base:
2 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
Service:
Army
Number:
5953566
Died :
Sunday, April 30, 1950
Place died:
Mombasa, East Africa
Age:
34
Corporal Eric Hines, 2 Troop, was wounded 4 February 1944 during operations in Italy.
1947 Assistant Inspector, Special Branch, Kenya Police, Gilgil, Kenya.
Member of the Commando Association who record final rank as Sergeant.
Died in 1950 and interred Mombasa, East Africa. Son of James & Emily Hines.
Memorial headstone at Deeping St Nicholas, Lincolnshire.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/72.
WD report by Capt Keep on Intake training instructors 15/12/43.
Commando Association newsletter 5 (1947) and Obituaries in newsletter 11 (1950).
Lincolnshire Family History Society.
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