Lieutenant Jesse Francis Montague Hind

Army Number : n/a

Battalion : 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Jesse William and Lillian Frances Hind, of The Elms, Newcastle Circus, The Park, Nottingham. Educated at Aldro Preparatory School, Eastbourne, at Rugby, and at Oriel College, Oxford. He enlisted at Nottingham and was gazetted 22nd August 1914 and joined the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 31st December 1914. He served at Gallipoli and was wounded at Suvla Bay, 9th August 1915. He went to France in 1916 and was killed in action, 27th September 1916, aged 23, whilst in the line near Ovillers Post, South of Thiepval, France, during the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated : Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Lieutenant Jesse Francis Montague Hind is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. John the Evangelist Church War Memorial, Carrington, Nottingham.
High Pavement Unitarian Church, War Memorial, (Pitcher and Piano Bar), Nottingham
Dakeyne Street Lads’ Club War Memorial, Nottingham.
Alms Houses Edwalton, Nottingham