Name
Kenneth James Mackenzie Baines
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/01/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL
Panel 3.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Bushey Town Memorial, St James’ Church Memorial, Bushey
Pre War
Kenneth James Mackenzie Baines was born on Sark in the Channels Islands. The only son of a retired army colonel, Kenneth had three sisters. Like his father, he followed a military career.
Prior to the war he was resident in Bushey at ‘Ensor’, the house next to The Red House in the High Street.
Wartime Service
At the start of the war he fought with the Cape Mounted Rifles in the German South West Africa Campaign. In order to get to the Front in France quickly, he took a commission as a Second Lieutenant with the 3rd Battalion of The King’s (Liverpool Regiment). He is thought to have been lost on 2 January 1916 while on ‘listening duty’ close to the German trenches.
He is remembered with honour on the Ploegsteert Memorial in Belgium and commemorated on the Bushey Memorial and at St James’ Church Memorial, Bushey. His death was also recorded in the St James’ Parish Magazine.
Additional Information
Information provided with the kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project – Please visit www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk.
Acknowledgments
Andrew Palmer
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
