Name
James Baines
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Pirton School Memorial
Biography
James appears on the School War Memorial, confirming that he
attended the school. Parish records
suggest only one man of this name who could have served, and he was baptised on
June 1st 1879, the son of Charles and Martha Elizabeth Baines (née Weeden). He would have been thirty-five at the
outbreak of war. Baptism records list
eight children: Emma (bapt 1870), Thomas (bapt 1872), Elizabeth (bapt 1875),
Ann (bapt 1877), James (b 1879), Peggy (b 1883), Frederick (b 1885, died aged two)
and Mary (b 1889).
Acknowledgments
Text from the book ‘The Pride of Pirton’ by Jonty Wild, Tony French & Chris Ryan used with author's permission
