Photo 1: John Hinde on a 30 Bobber. The picture was taken at Shipton Under Wychwood in 1919. The horse named The Boy was a New Zealand bred Hackney. Photo 2: A portrait Photo 3: The Battery at Fargo Camp, Larkhill in 1915. John is 3rd row down and 9th in from left. Photo 4: A photo of gun team going to war, at Fargo Camp, Larkhill. John is on the last horse, an officer's charger Trench map of the Somme: Germans in red, Allies in blue. One of several trench maps belonging to John. || This story was submitted by Hugh Hinde, concerning his father John Egerton Berthon Hinde who was born on 3 February 1896. He enlisted in 1914 as a private in the Inns of Court Regiment (The Devil's Own). He was later commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. He joined D Battery, 91st Brigade RFA, 20th (Light) Division and was wounded in 1918. Hugh recounts that towards the end of the war, his father had been wearing a Pickelhauber (picked up by someone as a souvenir) and a shrapnel burst blew it apart on his head fracturing his skull. His own helmet was elsewhere and he had put on the one that was handed to him - this was just as well because he would otherwise have been more badly injured. John used to get quite emotional about the war. He was in the mounted unit and so many horses were killed. Hugh says the war destroyed a lot of horses. At the end of the war, officers were entitled to buy horses from Remount Depots for £1.50, called the 30 Bobbers. John's horse named The Boy was a New Zealand bred Hackney.

This is a studio photographic portrait of Temporary Second Lieutenant Theophilus Garfield Skyrme in his Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) uniform taken around 1915. 2nd Lieutenant Skyrme served with the 13th (Service) Battalion the Rifle Brigade between February and November 1916 on the Somme. He was wounded at the Battle of the Ancre and subsequently lost his leg to gangrene. Theophilus Garfield Skyrme is my maternal great-grand father.

Close up of the photograph of Temporary Second Lieutenant Theophilus Garfield Skyrme in a Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) uniform