Hine, CA
(1892 - 1916)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
7th March 1892
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1904 - 1910
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
88 Nightingale Lane, Wandsworth Common
REGIMENT
2nd Battalion, The Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment
FINAL RANK:
2nd Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
16th October 1916
AGE AT DEATH:
24
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Somme
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L'Abbe. V A 6
2nd Lieutenant Claude Annesley Hine
Claude was born on December 3rd 1892, the youngest of three children of surveyor and auctioneer George Hine and his wife, Mary. He spent six years at the College, joining at the start of 1904 and leaving in the summer of 1910, while a member of the Lower Fifth. After Dulwich he went on to be articled to a chartered accounting firm and passed two of the entrance exams required by the Society of Chartered Accountants.
The outbreak of war in 1914, however, saw Claude abandon accountancy, instead opting to enlist in the Honourable Artillery Company. He spent time training at the Tower of London, before going over to the continent for the first time in April 1915. Wounded at Hooge that September, he would go on to spend the next eight weeks in hospital in France, and upon his recovery was sent to an officers’ training camp at St. Omer. In March 1916 he took up a commission in the Royal West Surreys, but not long afterwards was forced to spend two months recuperating in England following a bout of jaundice. After rejoining his unit he served on the Somme, where he was seriously wounded on October 7th, dying as a result of his injuries nine days later, whilst still at a casualty clearing station.
