Name
Ernest Baring
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/04/1917
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
1756
Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
56th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VAULX HILL CEMETERY
I. H. 20.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 16 Jun 1889 in Northam, Bideford, Devon son of the Rev. Francis Henry and Amy (Stamper) Baring of “Marchdyke”, Chandlers Ford, Hampshire.
Educated at the United Services College 1898-1899. He became an agricultural experimentalist in the Department of Agriculture, Woolongbar Farm, New South Wales, Australia in 1910.
Wartime Service
Enlisted Private on 21 Jan 1916 at Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia and embarked on the Horse Transport ‘Ceramic’ arriving at Port Said on 21 May 1916. Entered France at Marseilles on 29 Jun 1916 joining his battalion on 26 Jul 1916. Appointed Lance Corporal on 23 Dec 1916.
Wounded with gun-shot wound to the head in action on 4 Feb 1917 and admitted to Hospital in Rouen. Returned to action on 7 Mar 1917 and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Brother of 2nd Lieutenant Cecil Christopher Baring who died of wounds on 21 Mar 1918 and of 2nd Lieutenant Reginald Arthur Baring who was killed in action on 9 Jun 1918 in France and also of Private Charles Alexander Baring who was killed in action on 4 Sep 1916 and who are also commemorated on these memorials. United Services College, Westward Ho, Devon amalgamated with Imperial Service College in Windsor in 1912 and then moved to Haileybury College, Hertford Heath in 1942.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
