Captain Oliver W. Hind
1873-1931
Mess Jacket, c. 1905
Hind studied law at Cambridge,
earning a Bachelor’s degree in 1894. He joined the family firm of Wells and
Hind at that time and later, in 1899, earned a Master of Laws degree. Hind
became an officer with the 1st Nottinghamshire (Robin Hood) Volunteer Rifle
Corps prior to 1903 and was made a lieutenant in February of that year. He became
a captain on September 27, 1905 and retained that rank as a supernumerary in
1908 when the regiment was reorganized as the 7th (Robin Hood) Battalion, The
Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Hind was assigned
to the Territorial Force Reserve in 1914.
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