Raymond Vernon Baldock (1894 - 1917)

Born 1894 in Jeparit, Victoria, Australia

Ancestors

Died 20 Sep 1917 at about age 23 in Passendale, West-Vlaanderen, België

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Biography

Raymond Baldock is an Anzac who served in World War One.

Corporal Raymond Baldock was Killed in Action during the Battle of Passchendaele during World War I.

Raymond Vernon BALDOCK was born in 1894 at Jeparit. He was the son of Alfred BALDOCK and Louisa Albina Marion PERRY^[1]

Ray was a farmer in Kaniva when he enlisted with the AIF at Dimboola on the 19th August 1914 — only 15 days after the English declared they were at war with Germany. He was assigned to the 8th Battalion. He embarked on HMAT Clan McGillivray at Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on the Gallipoli Campaign on the 5th April 1915. As part of the 8th, he took part in the Landing at Anzac Cove, coming ashore as part of the second wave on 25 April 1915. By the end of October 1915 he had suffered shrapnel wounds to his hands and chest (his hands susequently became septic), shrapnel wounds to his abdomen, dysentry, and dengue fever.

AUSTRALIA'S CASUALTIES.

KILLED AND WOUNDED.

Word has been received by Mr. and Mrs. Baldock, of Jeparit, that their son, Private Raymond V. Baldock, who was recently wounded at Gallipoli, is still suffering with his arm, the trouble necessitating his re-entry into a hospital at Alexandria.^[2]

He was promoted, temporarily, several times:

Private Raymond V. Baldock, an original Anzac, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Baldock, of Jeparit, has been promoted abroad to the rank of sergeant.^[3]

He died during the Third Battle of Ypres.

JEPARIT.

Official news was received on Tuesday of the death on the field of action of Sergeant Raymond Vernon Baldock, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. AIfred Baldock, of Jeparit. He had formerly been reported missing.^[4]

BALDOCK.—On the 15th January, officially reported killed in action September 20, 1917; previously reported wounded and missing, Sergeant Ray V. Baldock, 8th Battalion (Victoria), dearly loved eldest son of A. and L. Baldock, "Riverside," Jeparit, Victoria, (grandson of Mrs. J. Baldock, of Woodside), after three years' service, aged 23 years 8 months. Our hero.—Inserted by his loving parents, brothers, and sisters.^[5]

BALDOCK.—Killed in action, September 20, 1917, 520, Sgt. Raymond Baldock, 8th Battalion, Anzac, of Japarit, aged 23 years 8 months.

None were there who loved you, Ray,

To hear your last soft sigh,

To breathe a prayer to God above,

To kiss your lips as you closed your eyes.

Our hero.

—(Inserted by his loving friend, Dossie, Victoria street, Loch.)^[6]

Research Notes

Who is Dossie?

Sources

1. ↑ Vic Birth Registration District: JEPARIT, Year: 1894, Registration: 4390/1894
2. ↑ AUSTRALIA'S CASUALTIES. (1915, December 14). Warracknabeal Herald (Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 4. Retrieved August 22, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article132776000
3. ↑ PERSONAL. (1917, August 28). Warracknabeal Herald (Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 4. Retrieved August 22, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article132761038
4. ↑ JEPARIT. (1918, January 18). The Horsham Times (Vic. : 1882 - 1954), p. 6. Retrieved August 22, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72921095
5. ↑ Family Notices (1918, February 2). Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), p. 27. Retrieved August 22, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87545473
6. ↑ Family Notices (1918, February 25). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 1. Retrieved August 22, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1641829

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12505247/raymond-vernon-baldock: accessed 22 August 2022), memorial page for Corporal Raymond Vernon Baldock (unknown–20 Sep 1917), Find a Grave Memorial ID 12505247, citing Birr Cross Roads Cemetery, Zillebeke, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium; Maintained by Remembering (contributor 46946602).
• Diary of Raymond Vernon Baldock at Victorian Collections Accessed 22 August 2022
• https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/83175
• National Archives Australia: 3046607
• https://youtu.be/7wpymnU1VTc
• Postcards and letters at Victorian Collections Accessed 22 August 2022