Name
Humphrey John Baillie (MC)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/03/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Dorsetshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Military Cross
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
KUT WAR CEMETERY
N. 6.
Iraq
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 14 Jun 1893 at Newnham-on-Severn, Gloucestershire son of the Rev. William Gordon Baillie and Mary Harriet (Evans) Baillie of Sutton Mead, Moretonhampstead, Devon. Educated at Haileybury College 1906-12.
Wartime Service
Was nominated for VC after the Battle of Ahwaz, Persia on 3 Mar 1915 but was awarded Military Cross (29 Oct 1915). In a later action the Ottoman forces laid siege to Kut-el-Amara in Iraq on 7 Dec 1915. There were 350 men of the 2nd Bn. Dorsets present of whom only 70 survived the siege. The British Forces surrendered on 29 Apr 1916. Lieut Baillie was killed during the siege.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
