Yorkshire-born Guy Hynd was first reported in Australia in 1911, aged 20. A merchant navy apprentice, he was charged as being absent without leave from the Falkirk while it was docked at Newcastle. At the time, Hynd had been indentured to John Stewart & Co since October 1909 on a 3-year term. It appears he may have moved to the Adelaide Steamship Company by 1912 and worked on the Echunga.
By the time he enlisted in 1916, Hynd was living in Harwood Island, near Yamba. He stated his occupation was a mercantile marine. His movements before enlistment are unknown, though according to Grafton’s Daily Examiner on 18 August 1916, he expressed gratitude for receiving a gift from the Harwood community despite only living among them for a short time.
Hynd was encamped at Chermside Signalling School in Brisbane, who he represented in a soccer match against a Brisbane select XI ending 4 all.
He embarked to England in October 1916, arriving in January 1918 but within a fortnight was hospitalised with scarlet fever. He left isolation in June and soon arrived in France with the 26th Battalion. Over the next three months he caught influenza, and after his recover sprained his ankle leading to evacuation to England. The ankle injury was so severe he never returned to France, moving between several depots and before being discharged in April 1918.
After the war Hynd became a farmer in Cessnock and became the secretary of the Bellbird soccer club in 1922. He remained involved in the sport during a lengthy period with the Cessnock Sub-branch of the RSL, whose committee ran its own soccer team. During a period in the 1930s, when Hynd was branch president, the soccer team was captained by Australian international Jack Taylor. Hynd passed away in 1964.