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Second Lieutenant JOHN HAWKESFORD HINCKS

Service Number: 79908
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Sussex Regiment

5th Cinque Ports Bn.

Date of Death

Died Between 27 May 1940 and 29 May 1940

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CAESTRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot 5. Row B. Grave 3.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Ernest and Laura Louise Stewart Hincks, of Bexhill, Sussex. His brother Thomas Stewart Hincks also died on service.
  • Personal Inscription BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART: FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD. >>> ST. MATTHEW V.8
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