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Jack Hinton
John Daniel 'Jack' Hinton VC (17 September 1909 – 28 June 1997) was a New Zealand soldier who served with the New Zealand Military Forces during the Second World War. He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, for his actions at Kalamata on 29 April 1941 during the Battle of Greece.
==Early life==
John Hinton, known as Jack, was born in Colac Bay in Southland, New Zealand on 17 September 1909, one of seven children of a railway man and his wife. He was educated at local schools and on most days, before starting lessons, would milk a herd of 40 cows. When he was 12, he ran away from home after an argument with his father. He found a job at a grocer's in a nearby town but after a year signed on as a galleyhand aboard a Norwegian whaling ship which spent the 1921/1922 whaling season in the Southern Ocean. On his return, and after reuniting with his parents on good terms, he started working as a shepherd. He soon tired of this and began the life of a swagman, working from town to town as he travelled around the South Island.
Hinton spent most of the next several years on the West Coast mining for gold, fruit picking, constructing railroads, hauling coal, and saw milling. Sport was a passion for Hinton; he boxed as a lightweight and also ran foot races and played rugby for Hokitika.
In the 1930s, Hinton found regular employment in the Public Works Department, building bridges and roads throughout the West Coast. He soon became respected for his honesty and hard working nature and became a foreman for the department. In 1937, he invested his earnings into a pub for which his future wife, Eunice Henriksen, had the lease.
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