George Arthur Hindes

A Third Hand with Fishing Vessel Leach’s Romance (Shoreham), George died on 29th of July 1940 aged 43. 

George was born at Lowestoft on 24 August 1896, a son of Frederick James and Emma Hindes. In 1901 his family lived at 2 Mummery Buildings ‘rear of Till Road’ and this was still their home in 1911. By 1914 George was living at 19 Cathcart Street. 

George joined the Royal Naval Reserve on 18 December 1914, to serve as a Deck Hand, service number DA 2659. George served with the trawler Manx Hero before, on 22 January 1915, joining the trawler Blenheim and he remained with that trawler until April 1918. He then served with the Hannibal, the Caesar and the Julius. He was demobilized on 12 March 1920.

On 24 April 1918 George married Alice Janet Ayres at Saint Margaret’s Church. The marriage register shows George as a fisherman living at 5 Norfolk Street, even though he was in the Royal Naval Reserve, and Alice living at 30 Stevens Street. In 1921 George and Alice both lived at 30 Stevens Street and George was a trawler fisherman.  

In July 1940 George was the Third Hand on the fishing trawler Leach’s Romance. On 29 July the trawler was about ten miles south of Brighton and struck a mine. Four crew, including George, were lost, officially being noted as ‘missing presumed drowned.’