Rushden Sergt.- Major Killed - Premature Explosion During an Exercise

The sad news that their youngest son, Company Sergt.-Major Gordon Hind, R.E. has been killed in an accident during exercises, when a explosive went off too soon, has reached Mr. and Mrs. J. Hind, of 114, St. Margaret’s-avenue, Rushden.

C.S.M. Hind had been in the Army since leaving school at the age of 14. While at Chepstow Training School he was presented with a cup at the age of 16 for being the champion boy of the school, winning five races and finishing second in a sixth.

At the age of 18 he won an Army boxing championship at Chepstow.

After leaving Chepstow, he went to Aldershot, where he took his first “ribbon”, and later was promoted to sergeant at Chatham. At 22 years of age he was put on the Territorial staff. Shortly after the war broke out he won his C.S.M. crown.

C.S.M. Hind was 27, had been married for four years, making his home at Gillingham. He was well known at Rushden as a boy, being a member of the Cubs and Scouts, and attending the Alfred-street School and Intermediate School.