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Cenotaph record

Kempster Wakefield Baigent

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Portrait provided by Peter Millward - No known copyright restrictions

Portrait provided by Peter Millward - No known copyright restrictions

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Kempster Wakefield AWMM
  • Surname
    Baigent AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 47840 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion
    Theosophist AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Pre 1917 AWMM Hawera, Taranaki, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs Lilley Baigent (wife), Hawera, Taranaki, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 9 June 1917 AWMM Married AWMM
    Married, 2 children AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
    1914-1919 Western Front AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 47840 AWMM
  • Military service
    New Zealand Volunteers 7 years AWMM
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    Died of Sickness, Cause of Death AWMM
    Died after discharge from the NZEF from pernicious anaemia AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Son of Alfred Baigent and Sarah Baigent.

    Husband of Lilley nee Fabian Baigent. Father of Sydney (born 1902); Hector (born 1904). AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    3 February 1921 AWMM
    Age 45 AWMM
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  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Died of Sickness AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Totara Memorial Park (Thames), 110 Te Arapipi Road, Totara, Thames-Coromandel District, New Zealand AWMM PUBL-023-0008 AWMM
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  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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