Sidney Hinds

Sidney Rae Hinds was born on May 14, 1900, in Newton, Illinois, as the son of Daniel C. and Elizabeth (Jackson) Hinds. He spent his high school years in Wahpeton, North Dakota, and when he was eighteen years old, he received an appointment from Congressman John Miller Baer to the United States Military Academy at West Point, 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, producing 49 general officers, including Lyman L. Lemnitzer, Clovis E. Byers, Henry I. Hodes, Lawrence J. Carr, Halley G. Maddox, Edward J. McGaw, Verne D. Mudge, Richard C. Partridge, Ewart G. Plank, William W. Bessell, Jr., John F. Cassidy, Rex V. Corput, Jr., Francis W. Farrell, William W. Ford, Charles K. Gailey, Joseph E. Harriman, Frederick M. Harris, Sherman V. Hasbrouck, Frederick L. Hayden, Homer W. Kiefer and Maurice W. Daniel.

In 1924 he participated in the Summer Olympics and won the gold medal as a member of the American team in the team free rifle competition.^[2] His gold medal in on display at the US Army Infantry Museum at Fort Benning, Georgia.

He died in San Antonio, Texas, on February 15, 1991, and is buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.

During World War II he saved the German town Ahlen by believing the German Dr. Paul Rosenbaum who was responsible for the hospital town.^{[clarification needed]} In the early 1990s the park in front of the station in Ahlen was named after him.

Here is the ribbon bar of Brigadier general Sidney Rae Hinds:^[3][4]