Herbert Joseph Baird

Forenames

Herbert Joseph AWMM

Surname

Baird AWMM

Service number

WWI 7/1440 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

21 Dec 1894 AWMM
Ashley, Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM

Address before enlistment

Pre 01 Jul 1915 AWMM 76 Percival Street, Rangiora, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs A. Baird (mother), 76 Percival Street, Rangiora, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 14 Aug 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 7/1440 AWMM

Military service

• New Zealand Field Artillery, 3 Brigade Ammunition Column AWMM
• Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 01 Jul 1915 AWMM
Age  20 AWMM
Shepherd/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 14 Aug 1915-19 Sep 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 28 AWMM Vessel was Tofua AWMM Trooper AWMM Canterbury Mounted Rifles AWMM 6th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  4 October 1915. Falls ill with diphtheria and is admitted to the Infections Hospital in Choubra. AWMM
• Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Lance Corporal/Military AWMM
Canterbury Infantry Regiment AWMM

Death

11 Nov 1916 AWMM
Age  21 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Brockenhurst (St Nicholas) Churchyard, Hampshire, England AWMM Plot A, Row 2, Grave 9 AWMM

Memorial name

• Rangiora War Memorial, (Ceontaph), Rangiora, Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM
• Rangiora, St John the Baptist Church, memorial cross, 355 High Street, Rangiora, Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22272097
  Further Reference
• No 1 New Zealand General Hospital, Brockenhurst
  http://southernlife.org.uk/nzindex.htm
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Rangiora church memorial
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/rangiora-church-memorial
  Further Reference
• Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20210315175255/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1CMRi-t1-body.html
  Further Reference

References

• Church, C. (2002). New Zealand graves at Brockenhurst : 93 New Zealand soldiers remembered from World War One. Hampshire, England: Author.
• Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 29
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 3: Includes portrait
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Byrne, J.R. (1922). New Zealand Artillery in the Field, 1914 - 18. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Ferguson, David (1921). The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd: Auckland, N.Z.
• The Surcingle : official organ of the Silent Sixth Rfcts, New Zealand Expdy Force. [At sea] : [Magazine Committee], 1915.