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Hines Walter John

 Born Brunswick Victoria but living with his family in Zeehan Tasmania, a draper who embarked Hobart 20^th October 1914 on board “HMAT Katuna” with the 3^rd Field Ambulance. He died 6^th August 1918 from wound received and was buried in the Corbie Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

THE SUPREME SACRIFICE LIEUTENANT W, J, HINES.

Lieutenant Walter J. Hines, son of Mr. and Mrs T. Hines, of Zeehan and brother of Sergeant-Major William Hines, has paid the supreme sacrifice by laying down his bright young life in the deathless cause of Liberty. When the sad and yet proud news became general yesterday, there were many expressions of regret that Fortune had not continued to favour one who survived the Gallipoli campaign and went through the awful tide of war in France, a veteran of only 25 years, who had crammed more incidents into his four years of life since he left Zeehan than fell to the lots of millions of men throughout all their days. Lieutenant Hines was popular as a man, upright as a citizen, courageous as a soldier of the war of liberation, steadfast as a friend, admirable as a companion, and in every way bright and full of manly promise and character.

Mr. Percy A. Craw, a former resident of Zeehan and Queenstown, but for some years past of Burnie, speaks of Lieutenant Hines as a former employee of his, in the following highly appreciative manner:  'Lieutenant W. J. Hines was with me for about four years, and was one of the brightest young men I had ever had in my employ. True as a steel upright to a fault, clean living, with a keen sense of duty, he was a man's man and an example worthy of imitation. He volunteered for active service on August 8, 1914, four days after the declaration of war, and was one of the first, if not the first, to enlist in Burnie. He left for Claremont on August 17, and left Tasmania in the troopship Geelong as assistant dispenser, A.M.O., with the first contingent to go from Tasmania. He went all through the Egyptian camp training and Gallipoli campaign, and after the evacuation was sent to France. During this time he was quartermaster sergeant. After strenuous service in France, in December, 1916, he was recommended for a commission, and was sent to Worcester College, Oxford, for four months' special instruction, after which he gained his commission as 2^nd lieutenant, and was sent to rejoin his unit at the front. A few months later be was sent to a school of instruction in France for bomb-making and throwing and rifle grenades. He passed his examinations so well that he was appointed as an instructor in this, the largest bombing school in France. After some time there, wishing to join his old comrades, he was attached to the 15th Battalion on April 27, 1917, where he soon obtained another star as 1^st Lieutenant. He remained with the I5th right to the end, when be was smitten down, and died of wounds on August 6, after four years strenuous work. He was universally respected by all classes, officers and men and civilians, and was held in the very highest esteem as a splendid, vigorous type of Australian manhood. He had a   manly, generous heart, with a keen sense of right and duty. He has fallen, his life's task nobly done, a hero and martyr to die cause of true liberty. He leaves a father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Thos Hines, of Zeehan, and a brother, Recruiting-Sergeant Will Hines, to mourn their loss of a noble son, and one of God's gentlemen.'

Zeehan and Dundas Herald 20^th August 1918

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