Name
Hugh Laurents Chenevix Baldwin
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/11/1914
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Mentioned in Despatches
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY
I. A. 17.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 13 Jun 1878 in the Castle, Cape Town, South Africa son of Maj. F. Chenevix (Connaught Rangers) and Rosalind Baldwin of Lancefield, Camberley, Surrey. Educated at Haileybury College 1892-3 and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on 20 Jul 1898, attached to the Middlesex Regiment and then the 27th Madras Infantry. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 20 Oct 1900 and transferred to the 58th Vaughan’s Rifles. Made Captain on 20 Jul 1904. Served on the NW Frontier, Waziristan 1901-2 and against the Darwesh Khel Waziris in 1902.
Wartime Service
He was at home on leave when WW1 broke out and was appointed Company Commander in the Rifle Brigade. He the rejoined his own Regiment on 7 Nov 1914, Mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 17 Feb 1915) and was killed near Festubert while leading a charge on the German trenches.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
