[3] Hinton joined the Saints in 1912 and played in the reserves; in 1913, he scored a hat-trick in a Southern Alliance match.
[4] When all league football was suspended because of the First World War, Hinton joined the Royal Air Force, stationed at Farnborough.
He played football for his squadron and was selected to represent "England" in an RAF international match against their Scottish equivalents.
[3] He captained the works team, coached by another former Southampton player, Jim Angell,[5] when they reached the First Round proper of the FA Cup in January 1920.
[6] Hinton left Thornycroft in February 1921 to join Barnstaple Town, moving on a month later to Exeter City of the Football League Third Division.