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{{short description|English cricketer, soldier, local government politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox military person
|honorific_prefix = [[Brigadier (United Kingdom)|Brigadier-General]]
| name = Alan Hinde
|honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CMG|JP}}
| image =
| birth_date = 17 May 1876
| birth_place = [[Bromley]], [[Kent]], England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1950|8|24|1876|5|17|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Great Cornard]], [[Suffolk]], England
| nickname =
| family =
| module = {{Infobox cricketer
| embed = yes
| country = England
| batting = Unknown
| bowling = Unknown
| role =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1907/08
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 2
| runs1 = 19
| bat avg1 = 4.75
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 12
| deliveries1 = 186
| wickets1 = 4
| bowl avg1 = 24.50
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = 4/85
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–
| date = 26 November
| year = 2023
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/alan-hinde-29348 ESPNcricinfo
}}}}

'''Alan Hinde''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CMG|JP}} (17 May 1876 – 24 August 1950) was a [[British Army]] officer and an English first-class [[cricket]]er. Hinde served in the [[Royal Artillery]] with distinction from 1895 to 1923, seeing action in both the [[Second Boer War]] and the [[First World War]]. On retirement he held the honorary rank of [[Brigadier (United Kingdom)#Historical rank of brigadier-general|brigadier-general]]. His military service took him to [[British India]] prior to the First World War, where he played [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]]. Following his retirement from military service, Hinde undertook civic duties in [[West Suffolk (county)|West Suffolk]], which included a fourteen-year tenure as chairman of [[Melford Rural District|Melford Rural District Council]].

==Early life and military service==
The son of Walter Alan Hinde, he was born at [[Bromley]] in May 1876. He was educated at [[Bradfield College]], where he represented both the [[cricket]] and [[association football|football]] teams.<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book|title=The Bradfield College Register|date=1935|page=150|edition=7|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|location=[[Oxford]]|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.544161/page/150/|language=en}}</ref> From there, he proceeded to the [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich]]. Hinde graduated into the [[Royal Artillery]] (RA) as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in November 1895,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26679|date=12 November 1895|page=6100}}</ref> with promotion to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] following in November 1898.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27021|date=8 November 1898|page=6511}}</ref> He served in the [[Second Boer War]] and was involved in operations in the [[Orange Free State]], including the engagements at [[Battle of Poplar Grove|Polar Grove]] and [[Battle of Driefontein|Driefontein]]. During the war, he was afflicted by [[typhoid]], but returned to serve in its remainder and was promoted to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in September 1901.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27353|date=10 September 1901|page=5981}}</ref> At the conclusion of the conflict, Hinde remained in South Africa with the RA until 1906, before moving with his brigade to [[Khadki|Kirkee]] in [[British India]]. There, he made two appearances in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]] in August and September 1907; both came against the [[Parsis cricket team|Parsees]], with the first coming in the [[Bombay Tournament (cricket)|Bombay Tournament]] at [[Bombay Gymkhana|Bombay]], with the second coming in the [[Bombay Tournament (cricket)#Presidency Match|Presidency Match]] at [[Poona Gymkhana Ground|Poona]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13700/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Alan Hinde|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=28 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In these matches, he took 4 wickets (all in a single innings) and scored 19 runs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13700/f_Bowling_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Alan Hinde|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=28 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13700/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Alan Hinde|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=28 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

==World War I and later life==
Hinde attended the [[Staff College, Camberley|Staff College]] in 1911. He was promoted to [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]] in February 1912,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28581|date=16 February 1912|page=1173}}</ref> and was appointed to the [[Staff (military)#United Kingdom|staff]] in October 1913.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28762|date=7 October 1913|page=6982}}</ref> Hinde served during the [[First World War]], being appointed a 2nd Grade General Staff Officer in January 1915,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29039|date=12 January 1915|page=459|supp=y}}</ref> and a temporary [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]] in June 1915, whilst serving as a 1st Grade Staff Officer.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29233|date=16 July 1915|page=7041|supp=y}}</ref> In January 1917, he was made a [[Brevet (military)#United Kingdom|brevet]] [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|colonel]] and in the latter part of the war he served on the staff of [[Field marshal (United Kingdom)|Field Marshal]] [[Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig|Haig]],<ref>{{London Gazette|city=Edinburgh|issue=13044|date=26 January 1917|page=229}}</ref> and was made a temporary [[Brigadier (United Kingdom)#Historical rank of brigadier-general|brigadier-general]] in March 1918.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30588|date=19 March 1918|page=3556|supp=y}}</ref> Engagements he was present at during the war included the [[Battle of Mons]] and the [[First Battle of Ypres]]. In August 1918 Hinde was decorated by France with the [[Legion of Honour]],<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30848|date=16 August 1918|page=9655|supp=y}}</ref> whilst following the war, he was made a Companion of the [[Order of St Michael and St George]] in the [[1919 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31097|date=31 December 1918|page=82|supp=y}}</ref> He relinquished the temporary rank of brigadier-general in July 1919 and returned to the RA from the staff,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31426|date=27 June 1919|page=8206|supp=y}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31873|date=20 April 1920|page=4672|supp=y}}</ref> later gaining the full rank of colonel in January 1921.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32177|date=31 December 1920|page=12810|supp=y}}</ref> He later returned to the staff, serving as a liaison officer in [[Upper Silesia]] during the [[1921 Upper Silesia plebiscite]],<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32734|date=1 August 1922|page=5708}}</ref> retiring in March 1923 with the honorary rank of brigadier-general.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32805|date=13 March 1923|page=1993}}</ref>

Hinde lived in [[Great Cornard]] in [[Suffolk]] following his retirement, where he was active in local politics. He was chairman of the [[Melford Rural District|Melford Rural District Council]] for fourteen years from 1932 to 1946,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001584/19460328/176/0010|title=The necessary loan|work=Suffolk and Essex Free Press|location=[[Sudbury, Suffolk]]|page=10|date=28 March 1946|access-date=28 November 2023|url-access=subscription|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> and later stood as a candidate for [[West Suffolk County Council]] in 1939, following a vacancy left by the elevation of a sitting councillor to [[alderman]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003223/19390401/046/0003|title=W.S. County Council Candidate|work=Newmarket Journal|page=3|date=1 April 1939|access-date=28 November 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001584/19390330/208/0005|title=A County Council Candidate|work=Suffolk and Essex Free Press|location=Sudbury, Suffolk|page=5|date=30 March 1939|access-date=28 November 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref> He also served as a [[Justice of the peace#England and Wales|justice of the peace]] for [[West Suffolk (county)|West Suffolk]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003223/19341222/044/0003|title=Additions to West Suffolk bench|work=Newmarket Journal|page=3|date=22 December 1934|access-date=28 November 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref> With [[Rationing in the United Kingdom|rationing]] still implemented in post-war Britain, Hinde was the food executive officer for [[Sudbury, Suffolk|Sudbury]] and Melford until his retirement from that post in January 1950.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004964/19500110/108/0007|title=General to retire this month|work=Suffolk and Essex Free Press|location=Sudbury, Suffolk|page=7|date=10 January 1950|access-date=28 November 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref> He died at Great Cornard in August 1950.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004964/19500905/078/0004|title=Brigadier General Alan Hinde, C.M.G., J.P., deceased|work=Suffolk and Essex Free Press|location=Sudbury, Suffolk|page=4|date=5 September 1950|access-date=28 November 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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