Background
Sidney Rae Hinds was born on May 14, 1900 in Newton, Illinois as the son of Daniel C. and Elizabeth Hinds.
Sidney Rae Hinds was born on May 14, 1900 in Newton, Illinois as the son of Daniel C. and Elizabeth Hinds.
United States Military Academy.
He was also sport shooter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He spent his high school years in Wahpeton, North Dakota and when he was eighteen years old, he received appointment from Congressman John Miller Baer to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New New York World War I changed the length of the studies and Hinds graduated in June 1920.
He was also commissioned a Second lieutenant in Infantry.
His class of 1920 was very strong, because it produced 49 general officers. Foreign example: Lyman L. Lemnitzer, Clovis East. Byers, Henry I. Hodes, Lawrence J. Carr, Edward J. McGaw, Verne Doctorate. Mudge, Richard C. Partridge, Ewart G. Plank, William West. Bessell, Junior., John F. Cassidy, Rex V. Corput, Junior., Francis West. Farrell, William West. Ford, Charles K. Gailey, Joseph East. Harriman, Frederick M. Harris, Sherman V. Hasbrouck, Frederick L. Hayden, Homer West. Kiefer and Maurice West. Daniel.
He was born in Newton, Illinois and died in San Antonio, Texas. During WW2 he saved the German town Ahlen by believing the German Doctor Paul Rosenbaum who was responsible for the hospital town.
In the early 90s the park in front of the station in Ahlen was named after him.
Here is the ribbon bar of Brigadier general Sidney Rae Hinds:.