Photo: Joyce and Noel Brison
J.H. Hynes
Northumberland Fusiliers
29th November 1918 aged 22.
HYNES James, 32983, Private, 8th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers, died 29 November 1918, only a couple of weeks after the war ended, age 22.
The 1891 census shows his parents William, a coach painter and Mary living in Shorts Yard, Clayport Street, Alnwick with James’s older siblings John (8), Catherine (3) and Mary (1).
James was born in 1896 and the casualty details on the CWGC website show him as the son of William Hynes of Stump Yard with no mention of his mother, who presumably died before James.
He does not appear on the Alnwick war memorial but a J. Hynes shows up on the plaque in the Northumberland Hall
Further research-: The 1901 census shows the family living in Blairs Yard Clayport Street. No mention of James’s mother or John and Catherine, now aged 18 and 13 respectively, although there were five more children including James, the youngest of these being one year old George, so possibly his mother died in childbirth.
