Stanley Herbert Baldwin (1896 - 1917)

Born 15 Jun 1896 in New Zealand

Ancestors

Died 21 Oct 1917 at age 21 in Belgium

Biography

Private BALDWIN, Stanley Herbert - WW1 33812 - Army

1st Battalion, Auckland Regiment N.Z.E.F.

Farmer working for Fritz Player, Northern Wairoa

gives his birth as Bay of Islands 15.6.1896

Both father, Eber Baldwin and two sons Stanley and brother Edwin were in service during WW1 at same or similar times. All were based in Western Europe, with Edwin being the first to depart Wellington NZ for the war. Stanley enlisted on the 18th of September, 1916. Sailing from NZ on the Ulimaroa, landing in Devon late March of that same year. His military file states that he had experience as a cadet, was approx age 20 at time of enlistment - 5 ft 10 and 140 pounds. He was sadly killed in action 21st of October 1917, in Belgium.

COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION - The Tyne Cot Memorial is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders, covering the Ypres Salient which extended roughly from Langemarck in the north to Ploegsteert Wood in the south. In 1917, the Third Battle of Ypres was an offensive was mounted by Commonwealth forces to divert German attention from a weakened French front further south. In June, the army pushed the Germans back from the Messines Ridge, though they then struggled against strong German opposition and bad weather. The campaign came to a close in November 1917 with the capture of Passchendaele.

Burial

Place: no known grave - name recorded on the Tyne Cot Memorial

Sources

• BIRTH - N.Z. Govt. B.D.M. index - 1898/6811 - Baldwin Stanley Herbert parents -- Caroline Alice & Eber
• https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE11095623