James Alexander Steenson Baird

Forenames

James Alexander Steenson AWMM

Surname

Baird AWMM

Also known as

• Jim AWMM
• Jas Alex Steenson Baird AWMM

Service number

WWI 29720 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Congregational, Christian AWMM

Birth

12 Dec 1893 AWMM

Address before enlistment

Pre 30 Jun 1916 AWMM 39 Wallis Street, Carisbrook, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Edwin Stakey (cousin), 26 David Street, Caversham, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 16 Oct 1916 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• Messines AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 29720 AWMM

Military service

Territorials, No 2 Company, Engineers AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 30 Jun 1916 AWMM
Age  22 AWMM
Machinist/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Oct 1916-28 Dec 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 66 AWMM Vessel was Willochra AWMM Private AWMM 18th Reinforcements, Otago Infantry Battalion, D Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 foot 9 inches AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  168 pounds AWMM
• Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Brown AWMM
• Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Brown AWMM
• Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Otago Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion, 4th (Otago) Company AWMM

Death

7 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age  23 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France AWMM III. B. 265. AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Papers Past. Digital New Zealand Newspapers.
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
  Sources Used
• Allblacks.com website All Blacks A to Z
  http://stats.allblacks.com/asp/atoz.asp?group=A
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22272043
  Further Reference
• Game report: 2nd Test Match Australia vs New Zealand, Carisbrook 13 September 1913Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 66, 15 September 1913, Page 11
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19130915.2.129
  Further Reference
• Rugby Museum.co.nz rugby profile
  http://www.rugbymuseum.co.nz/ABProfilee.asp?level1=All_Blacks&Level2=ABC&IDID=34
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Rugby Museum, 87 Cuba Street, Palmerston North
  http://www.rugbymuseum.co.nz/default.asp?level1=Home
  Further Reference
• Nixon Pictures. (2010). All Blacks at War: the First XIII, film details and profiles of the All Blacks.
  http://www.nixonpictures.co.nz/All_Blacks_WWI.html
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/198254/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/198254
  Further Reference
• Wikidata Entity
  http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16163591
  Further Reference
• Wikipedia Entry
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Baird_(rugby_union)
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.
• Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.
• Chester, R., McMillan, N. & Palenski, R. (2005). The encyclopedia of New Zealand rugby. Auckland, N.Z.: Hodder Moa. (4th ed.)
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  43: 12
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.
  New Zealand at the front. (1917). p. 141
• 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. 2: Includes portrait
• HMNZT 66 - The Roll call. Booklass, G.J. (George James), editor. -- On board ship : [Magazine Committee] Printed by Charles Jones & Co. Ltd. : 1916.