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Surname: BALDWIN
Forename(s): Robert
Place of Birth: Keighley, Yorkshire
Service No: 169011
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Canadian Infantry
Battalion / Unit: 27th Battalion (City of Winnipeg)
Division: 2nd Canadian Division
Age: 20
Date of Death: 1916-06-11
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30.
CWGC Cemetery: ---
CWGC Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial(s): Not Listed (View Names Not Listed on a Local War Memorial)
Additional Information:
Robert Baldwin (born 14 June 1895) was the son of David and Isabella Broadbent Baldwin, née Mountain. David was born at Silsden, Yorkshire and Isabella at Manchester, Lancashire.
1901 Keighley, Yorkshire Census: 65, Bradford Road - Robert Baldwin, aged 5 years, born Keighley, son of David and Isabella B. Baldwin.
1911 Keighley, Yorkshire Census: 145, Bradford Road - Robert Baldwin, aged 15 years, born Keighley, son of David and Isabella Baldwin.
Canadian service records: http://www.baclac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/first-world-war-1914-1918-cef
Data Source: Craven Herald Article
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Canadian Infantry
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 2nd Canadian Division
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Page from the First World War ‘Book of Remembrance’: Private Robert Baldwin
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21 July 1916
CANADIAN SOLDIER KILLED: LINK WITH SILSDEN
Mrs. J. Tunnicliffe of 8, King Street, Silsden, and wife of Corporal Joseph Tunnicliffe, has received a Canadian paper in which the death of Pte. Robert Baldwin, her brother, is recorded, he having been killed in action. Pte. Baldwin was formerly a shell maker with the Canada Foundry Co., and came to England to engage in that kind of work. While in England he met his brother, Driver W. H. Baldwin, who was at that time a private in the 48th Highlanders. He intended to join his brother's battalion, but went into the 27th, and transferred and was killed on June 11th while fighting. Pte. Baldwin had been in the trenches nine weeks. His brother, Driver W. H. Baldwin, is a native of Silsden, and is at present in the fighting line.
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21 July 1916
BALDWIN - June 11th, in action, Pte. R. Baldwin, of the 27th Highland Brigade, brother of Mrs. Tunnicliffe, of King Street, Silsden.
21 July 1916
CRAVEN CASUALTIES IN THE GREAT ADVANCE - Silsden Lady's Brother Killed
Mrs. J. Tunnicliffe of 8, King Street, Silsden, and wife of Councillor Joseph Tunnicliffe, has received a Canadian paper in which the death of her brother, Pte. Robert Baldwin, is recorded, he having been killed in action. Pte. Baldwin was formerly a shell maker with the Canada Foundry Company, and came to England to engage in that kind of work. While in England he met his brother, Driver W. H. Baldwin, who was at that time a private in the 48th Highlanders. He intended to join his brother's battalion, but went into the 27th, and transferred, and was killed on June 11th while fighting. Pte. Baldwin had been in the trenches nine weeks. His brother, Driver W. H. Baldwin, is a native of Silsden, and is at present in the fighting line.
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