[1] Having served as a cadet in the Officers' Training Corps, Hyde was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 16 November 1914.
[2] He served in France in the 10th (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, where in May 1916 he was awarded the Military Cross.
His citation read: In late 1916 Hyde transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, underwent pilot's training, and was promoted to lieutenant on 1 January 1917.
[7] On 18 October, he racked up his fifth triumph; with Second Lieutenant Michael Gonne, he shot down an Albatros D.V, to be credited with the only destruction of an enemy craft on his record.
One of his paintings, entitled "Dogfight, 1917", is on display at the World War History & Art Museum in Alliance, Ohio.