Name
Alfred Baldwin
15 August 1885
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/09/1916
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
436999
Canadian Infantry
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIMY MEMORIAL
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
Alfred Baldwin was born on 15 August 1885 at Farnham, Essex, to Arthur and Charlotte Baldwin and the family were living at Farnham on both the 1891 and 1901 censuses. He worked for farmer Frank Stacey who appears to have been unhappy that he had enlisted as he commented on a character form that “He left my stock on January 12th without feeding them or giving me any notice he was leaving.”
[Farnham is a small village in Essex, near Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire]
Wartime Service
He enlisted as a soldier in Hockerill, Bishop's Stortford in 1904 into Royal Garrison Artillery and served under reg. no. 17967 until 1907 at which time he transferred to the Army Reserve. In 1910 he requested and got permission to reside in Canada and had to sign a declaration that in the event of mobilisation he would to report to the army in Canada which he did in March 1915. He enlisted into the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Edmonton, Alberta. He died during the Battle of the Somme.
Additional Information
Service record available through Canadian War Records
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
