Name
Walter Baldwin
1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/10/1915
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
300
Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
25th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GIBRALTAR (NORTH FRONT) CEMETERY
C. 3163.
Gibraltar
Headstone Inscription
He has no personal inscription on his headstone
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Chipperfield Memorials, Not on the Bovingdon Memorials
Pre War
Walter Baldwin was born in 1892 in Bovingdon, Herts, son of Charles Baldwin, a Farmer and Eliza (nee Freeman) Baldwin, the youngest of eight children.
The 1901 Census records Walter aged 8, living with his parents and five siblings at Cobbingham Farm, Bovingdon, Herts. The family later moved to "Bulstrode Farm", Chipperfield, Herts. No 1911 Census record has been found for Walter Baldwin.
In July 1914, Walter sailed from the Port of London for Australia, aboard the “R.M.S. ORVIETO” arriving in mid-August 1914.
His army service record indicates he was working as a Farm Hand.
Wartime Service
Walter enlisted at Brisbane, Queensland, on the 18 February 1915, for the duration of the war plus four months. Posted to “B” Company, 25th Battalion, 7th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force.
He embarked with his Battalion at Brisbane in June 1915, for Gallipoli. On 24 September 1915, he was taken ill and admitted to the 7th Field Ambulance, transferred to the Hospital Ship “Gascon” at Mudros Bay on 2 October 1915, and taken to The General Hospital Gibraltar, arriving there on the 8 October, where he died aged 23, on the 26 October 1915, of Acute Nephritis (a Kidney Problem). He is buried in the CWGC- Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery.
Additional Information
His Service Record has been digitised and is available to view on the Australian Nation Archive web site.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
