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Surname: BALDWIN
Forename(s): Harry
Place of Birth: Blackburn, Lancashire
Service No: 203502
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)
Battalion / Unit: 1/4th Battalion
Division: 49th (West Riding) Division
Age: 29
Date of Death: 1918-04-29
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: XV. I. 1.
CWGC Cemetery: DOZINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: BARNOLDSWICK, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Harry Baldwin was the son of James Henry and Betty Baldwin, née Newton. Both parents were born at Blackburn, Lancashire.
1891 Blackburn, Lancashire Census: 36, Carr Street - Harry Baldwin, aged 2 years, born Blackburn, son of James H. and Betty Baldwin.
1901 Blackburn, Lancashire Census: 10, Carr Street - Harry Baldwin, aged 12 years, born Blackburn, son of James H. and Betty Baldwin.
1911 Blackburn, Lancashire Census: 10, Carr Street - Harry Baldwin, aged 22 years, born Blackburn, son of James Henry and Betty Baldwin.
Harry was married to Alice Edsforth in 1911.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Harry Baldwin, 203502, W. Rid. R.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Harry Baldwin, 203502, 1/4th W. Rid. R. D. of W.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte Harry Baldwin, 203502, 1/4th Bn W. Riding. Date and Place of Death: 29.4.18. France. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Widow Sole Legatee - Alice. £14 15s. 6d.
UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: card(s) exist for Harry. Name(s) on card(s): Widow: Alice, born 26.7.91. Address 1. 23, Edmondson Street, Barnoldswick. Address 2. 8, Colin Street, Barnoldswick, Yorks. Children: James Henry, born 2.2.13.
A short biography of Harry is included in: ‘Barnoldswick – A small Town’s part in conflicts 1800 to 2014’ by Peter Ian Thompson (2014).
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
BALDWIN, H., aged 29 years, West Riding Regiment, 8, Colin Street, [Barnoldswick], died of wounds April 29, 1918.
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Private Harry BALDWIN
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 49th (West Riding) Division
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 27, 1918
OUR FIGHTING RETREAT FROM ARMENTIÈRES: THE FIVE DAYS’ DEFENCE OF ERQUINGHEM. DRAWN BY H. W. KOEKKOEK FROM MATERIAL SUPPLIED BY AN EYE-WITNESS. Erquinghem is about two miles west of Armentières (seen in the distance in the right background of our drawing), and lies on the road (seen in the middle distance on the right) leading west by south to Estaires and Merville. A pontoon-bridge over the River Lys is shown on the extreme left in the background. In the right foreground is the British first-line trench, and further to the left are rows of sectional trenches. Writing on April 11, Mr. H. Perry Robinson said: “When the success of the first attack on Ploegsteert permitted the Germans to pour through on the north side, while on the south side the fighting was going on about Estaires, the threat to our garrison in the Armentières area was evidently so great, with the enemy nearly making contact from both flanks in the rear, that it was withdrawn first to Erquinghem soon after midday yesterday, and then to a line in front of Nieppe, which line we still hold.” [The 1/4th Bn Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) fought in and around Erquinghem on the 10th April 1918]
Kindly supplied by Robert S. Richardson
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24 May 1918
Private Harry Baldwin, Barnoldswick
Private Harry Baldwin, Duke of Wellington's Regiment, died of gunshot wounds in a French hospital on the 29th April. A native of Blackburn, he lived in Barnoldswick three years prior to enlistment in July, 1916, and worked for Messrs. J. Windle and Sons, Wellhouse Mill. Private Baldwin was 29 years of age, and leaves a wife and one child living at 8, Colne Road [sic], Barnoldswick.
31 May 1918
BALDWIN - In loving memory of Private Harry Baldwin, Duke of Wellington's Regiment, who was killed in action April 29th, aged 29 years (formerly of Blackburn).
A loving husband, a faithful friend,
One of the best that God could lend;
O God, how mysterious are Thy ways
To take my dear husband in the best of his days.
From his Wife and Child, 8 Colin Street, Barnoldswick.
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24 May 1918
BALDWIN - Died of wounds, April 29th, Pte. H. Baldwin, of the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment, husband of Mrs. Baldwin, of 8, Colin Street, Barnoldswick, aged 29.
24 May 1918
CRAVEN AND THE WAR
Pte. H. Baldwin, Barnoldswick
Pte. Harry Baldwin, Duke of Wellington's Regiment, died of gunshot wounds in a French hospital on the 29th April. A native of Blackburn, he lived in Barnoldswick three years prior to enlistment in July, 1916, and worked for Messrs. J. Windle and Sons Wellhouse Mill. Pte. Baldwin was 29 years of age, and leave a wife and one child living at 8, Colin Street, Barnoldswick.
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