Edwin Baldwin

Forenames

Edwin AWMM

Surname

Baldwin AWMM

Service number

WWI 11/564 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Birth

10 Oct 1893 AWMM

Address before enlistment

Pre 15 Aug 1914 AWMM Uruti, Taranaki, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

George Baldwin (father), Waerenga, Waikato, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 11/564 AWMM

Military service

Territorial AWMM

Medals and Awards

• 1914-1915 Star AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 15 Aug 1914 AWMM
Age  20 AWMM
Farm hand/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Oct 1914 AWMM
HMNZT 6 AWMM Vessel was Orari AWMM Trooper AWMM Wellington Mounted Rifles AWMM Main Body AWMM

Medical notes

• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Hospitalised in 1917 AWMM
• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Saddler AWMM
Wellington Mounted Rifles, 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Squadron AWMM

Death

14 Nov 1917 AWMM
Age  23 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

• Ramleh War Cemetery, Israel AWMM B. 54. AWMM
• Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Memorial name

Family plot memorial, Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand

Public - Sarndra - Researcher - 2 August 2016 - Personal visit

Memorial reference

ANGLICAN DIVISION E Row 10, Plot 36

Public - Sarndra - Researcher - 2 August 2016 - http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/parksfacilities/cemeteries/Pages/cemeterysearch.aspx

Memorial name

• Ayun Kara Memorial (destroyed), Palestine AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Powles, C.G. (1922). The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe and Tombs. Digitised copy on NZETC site.
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Sina.html
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22272257
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Mounted Rifles website. Ayun Kara.
  http://www.nzmr.org/ayunkara.htm
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/651868/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/651868
  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

• Auckland Weekly News
  Auckland Weekly News, 1918
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 30
• Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
  Ayun Kara Memorial (since destroyed) erected at the site of the original burials to remember those who died 14 November 1917 from Powles, C.G. (1922), p. 264
• 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. 1: Includes portrait
• HMNZT 6. Orari tatler : a souvenir of the voyage of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force from Wellington to Alexandria, Oct. 16th-Dec. 3rd, 1914. (1915). [Cairo, Egypt]: Whitehead, Morris and Co. (Egypt) Ltd.
• Information kindly provided by family
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.