Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of George Edward Hinton, a building department foreman, born in the July quarter of 1847 in Silverstone, Northamptonshire (son of Peter Hinton, 1826-1899 and Mary Braggins, 1820-1903) and his wife Lucy Elizabeth Hinton (nee Cross, married on the 17th April 1869 in The Wesleyan Chapel, Banbury, Oxfordshire), born in the January quarter of 1850 in Silverstone (daughter of George Claridge Cross, 1824-1860 and Martha Chatwell (Chatell), 1827-1871). Daniel John was born in the January quarter of 1891 in Piddington, Northamptonshire, his siblings were, George William, a joiner, born in the January quarter of 1873 and Edith Emily, born in the April quarter of 1875, the latter two siblings were both born in Silverstone, Leonard, a schoolboy, born in the October quarter of 1879 in Brixton, Surrey, Kate Martha, a schoolgirl, born in the October quarter of 1882 in Lavender Hill, Surrey, Lucy Elizabeth, a schoolgirl, born in the January quarter of 1885 in Walthamstow, Essex and George Peter, born in the October quarter of 1888 in Silverstone, also residing with the family was a grandson, Charles Ernest Hinton, born in the October quarter of 1888 in Silverstone, in April 1891 the family home was at Main Road, Piddington, Hardingstone, Northamptonshire.
Daniel’s mother died, aged 45 years on the 16th November 1895, in Market Harborough, Leicestershire.
Daniel’s father married Caroline (Carrie) Baker in the January quarter of 1897 in Market Harborough (daughter of Edmund Charles Baker, 1818-1890 and Esther Knight, 1819-1880). Caroline was born in the January quarter of 1851 in Farnham, Surrey and baptised on the 9th April 1851 in Farnham.
Daniel’s father died aged 52 years, in the July quarter of 1899 in Rugby, Warwickshire.
In March 1901 Daniel was residing at 24, Cross Street, Little Bowden, Northamptonshire together with his step mother, Carrie Hinton, a stay machinist, and his siblings, Lily, a stay machinist, George and Dorothy, Eva born on the 7th September 1893 in Market Harborough and baptised on the 3rd August 1894 in St. Saviour’s Church, Leicester, also residing with the family as a boarder was his step mother’s sister, Emma Baker, a stay machinist, born 1857 in Farnham.
In April 1911 Daniel was employed a painter and paper hanger and was residing at Bath Street, Little Bowden, this being the family home of his married brother George, an iron foundry type caster and his wife Lucy Emma Hinton (nee Goode, married in the October quarter of 1906 in Market Harborough), born in the January quarter of 1888 in Little Bowden (daughter of Frederick Goode, 1853 and Lucy Garfield, 1858), and their daughter Lucy Hilda, born in the April quarter of 1907 in Little Bowden and baptised on the 9th May 1907 in the Church of St. Nicholas, Little Bowden.
Daniel also had another older sibling, Ellen Elizabeth, born on the 12th January 1871 in Silverstone.
Daniel married Annie Perkins, in the January quarter of 1912 in Brixworth, Northamptonshire, Annie was born on the 22nd October 1890 in Guilsborough, Northamptonshire. Daniel and Annie had a daughter Sylvia Mavis, born on the 20th April 1913 in Leicestershire.
After Daniel was killed his brother, George Peter Hinton enlisted in the 2nd Battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment, and was also gassed, he did later return to active service, but after his discharge in January 1919 his health deteriorated and he eventually died in November 1920 from the effects of being gassed.
A newspaper report carried the following information. News has been received at Guilsborough, that Private Hinton, 16624, Leicestershire Regiment, whose wife lives in that village, has died in hospital in France as the result of gas poisoning. He was at home in Guilsborough a few weeks ago, and had returned to the Front only two weeks when he was asphyxiated by a German gas cloud. Writing to Mrs Hinton the sister in charge of the hospital says: “Private Hinton was quite unconscious when admitted into hospital, and though everything was done for him he passed quietly away in the early hours of the morning.” The fallen soldier was buried with full military honours in the soldier’s cemetery near the hospital.
Daniel’s army service enlistment documents do not survive, therefore the currently available information pertaining to his military service has been obtained from the following sources: - 1921 HMSO Publication, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914 - 1919, WW1 Service Medal and Award Rolls, Army Registers of Soldiers’ Effects, WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Registers.
Enlisted/Attested in Market Harborough into the Regular Army. Date not known.
Joined. At Leicester. Date not known.
Posted. To Depot Leicestershire Regt. Pte. Date not known.
Allotted the Regimental Service number 16624.
Posted. To 1st Bn. Leicestershire Regt. Pte. Date not known.
First entered the theatre of war in France. 4/5/15.
Wounded in action. In the Field. Date not known.
Admitted. To No.17 Casualty Clearing Station, Remy (Siding), Belgium. Date not known.
Died of wounds in No.17 Casualty Clearing Station. 20/12/15.
Buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinghe, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Awarded the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.
In the event of his death, Daniel nominated his wife Annie Hinton as his sole legatee.
On Friday 4th, February 1916, The Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford Mercury published the following article on page 6, under the heading. – MARKET HARBOROUGH. – DEATH OF PRIV. HINTON. – News has been received at Market Harborough that priv. Dan Hinton, 3rd Leicester’s, has died in hospital in France from the effects of gas poisoning. He was home on leave a short time ago, and was gassed the day after his return to the trenches. He leaves a wife and one child.
On the 3rd July 1916, Daniel’s widow, Annie Hinton, of c/o Mrs. G. Perkins, Guilsborough, Northampton, was awarded a weekly Army Dependant’s Pension of fifteen shillings for herself and her daughter, commensurate on the 10th July 1916.
FAMILY NOTE: Daniel’s daughter Sylvia was the mother of Anthony Mason, who I met at St. Nicholas’s Church in Little Bowden in 2009, and who presently resides in Little Bowden.
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