Pte Alexander (Alec) Hynd, 24964, 6th Battalion The Buffs (East Kent) Regiment, died of wounds in hospital in France on July 2nd, 1918.

Born near Bognor Regis in Sussex in 1898, he had moved with parents Henry and Alice and a brother and a sister to Hexton, near Luton, by the time of the 1911 Census. He was engaged to a Luton girl, Miss E. M. Day.

A letter to his parents said Alec had been severely wounded in the leg. He was given a blood transfusion but passed away on the night of July 2nd. The hospital sister wrote that Alec had suffered no pain.