Harold Hinde

Brigadier Harold Montague Hinde CB CBE (24 August 1895 – 16 November 1965) was an officer of the British Army and cricketer.

Biography

Born in Southsea, Hinde was educated at Wellington and Blundell's Schools, and was a "Gentlemen Cadet" at the Royal Military College, before receiving his commission as a second lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps on 15 August 1914, within two weeks of the start of World War I. He was appointed temporary lieutenant on 1 May 1915, and temporary captain on 1 February 1916, receiving promotion to the permanent rank of lieutenant on 23 February 1916, and being appointed adjutant on 8 February 1918. On 3 June 1919, in recognition of his "valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in France and Flanders", Hinde was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

Hinde was appointed adjutant for the second time on 2 April 1933. On 1 November 1935 He was promoted to the temporary rank of major while "specially employed", receiving promotion to the rank of major in December, backdated to 25 October.