World War 1
Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1
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Mark Hindmarsh
Forename(s):
Mark
Surname:
Hindmarsh
Initial(s):
M
Service Number:
DM2/134695
Rank:
Driver
Regiment:
Royal Army Service Corps, 1st Base Auxilliary Motor Transport Company
Died:
05/03/1919
Aged:
23
Buried:
Dunkirk Town Cemetery
Service History:
Enlisted at Osterley Park, London on 21 October 1915.
Hindmarsh's service records are available via Ancestry.co.uk. They reveal he was 20 years 2 months old when he attested & that he joined the British Expeditionary Force in France & Flanders on 4 January 1916.
Died of influenza at Dunkirk Military Hospital.
Background:
Born about August 1895, at St. Anthony's, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, the son of Adam Hindmarsh by his wife, & Mary (née Ions), of High Buston Farm, Alnmouth, Northumberland.
Three brothers - Adam; Alexander; & John - & one sister, Mary Jane. In 1901 the family lived at Railway Sidings, Cowpen, Blyth, Northumberland. Then, Adam Snr. was a Railway Signalman.
Hindmarsh was a Farm Servant in 1911.
(Source: 'Portraits of War...'; Edited & compiled by June Watson; Wildgoose Press; 2016; p. 84)
One of two sons lost - see, also, Adam Hindmarsh, (Regimental service #39895; Leicestershire Regiment, 3rd (Reserve) Battalion; Died 8 November 1917).
Local Memorial:
Warkworth Cemetery
Warkworth War Memorial, by St Lawrence's Church