Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of John William and Mary Ellen Hinman of Braunston, Rutland. He embarked for France in June 1915 and took part in the Battle of Loos. On the 27th September he was slightly wounded, but continued with his duties. On the 8th October the German’s made a big effort against a trench called “Big Willie” that ran out of the Hohenzollern Redoubt and was held by the Coldstream Guards. After a heavy bombardment that lasted over four hours, there was a determined rush by German bombers, who broke into the Coldstream Guards section of trench, but they were repulsed by the Guard’s bombers who pelted the German’s out of the trench. The Guard’s lost one hundred men in this action, many of them blown to pieces by the bombs, but they entirely cleared the trench and gained every inch of lost ground. Sadly it was during this action that he lost his life being shot through the head, the action had lasted two and a half hours and nine thousand bombs were thrown by the British. Other sources show his place of residence as Oakham, Rutland. His brother Thomas Henry also fell.