Sidney Hinds
Sidney Rae Hinds (May 14, 1900 – February 17, 1991) was an American highly decorated officer of the United States Army with the rank of brigadier general. He was also sport shooter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics and won the Gold Medal in the team rifle competition Early life. 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, because it produced 49 general officers. For example: Lyman L. Lemnitzer, Clovis E. Byers, Henry I. Hodes, Lawrence J. Carr, 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. His gold medal in on display at the US Army Infantry Museum at Fort Benning, Georgia. He died in San Antonio, Texas on Feb 15, 1991, and is buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, in San Antonio, Texas. During World War II he saved the German town Ahlen by believing the German Dr. Paul Rosenbaum who was responsible for the  hospital town. In the early 1990s the park in front of the station in Ahlen was named after him. Medals and decorations. Here is the ribbon bar of Brigadier general Sidney Rae Hinds: