Identity
Title
Forenames
Edwin AWMM
Surname
Baldwin AWMM
Ingoa
Also known as
Service number
WWI 11/564 AWMM
Gender
Iwi
Hapū
Waka
Rohe
Religion
Civilian life
Birth
10 October 1893 AWMM AWMM
Date of birth
Place of birth
Birth notes
Address before enlistment
Pre 15 August 1914 AWMM Uruti, Taranaki, New Zealand AWMM
Post war occupation
Next of kin on embarkation
George Baldwin (father), Waerenga, Waikato, New Zealand AWMM
Relationship status
Pre 16 October 1914
AWMM Single AWMM
Service
Capture details
Days interned
Liberation date
Liberation Repatriation
POW liberation details
POW serial number
Medical notes
- Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
Hospitalised in 1917 AWMM - Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
Biographical information
Edwin Baldwin was the son of George and Elizabeth Mary Baldwin, formerly of Victoria, Australia. He migrated with his parents and siblings c1906. His parents settled in the Waikato, c1920 in Okaerio, Waerenga, Waikato.
Three sons, brothers served in WW1, Edwin Baldwin (11/564) with the NZEF; and William Frank Baldwin (10093?) and Leslie Lanyon Baldwin (2206) enlisted with the Australian Imperial Force (AIF).
Edwin was originally buried in the same grave as Captain Herrick (Wellington Mounted Rifles) AWMM
Death
Death
Date of death
Age at death
Place of death
Cause of death
Death notes
Cemetery
- Ramleh War Cemetery, Israel AWMM B. 54. AWMM
- Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
Cemetery name
Grave reference
Obituary
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
Memorials
Memorial name
- Ayun Kara Memorial (destroyed), Palestine AWMM
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
Roll of Honour
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Leave a note
Leave a tribute or memory of
Edwin Baldwin
Processing
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Remembering my Grandmother's brothers Edwin, Lesley and Frank (William) Baldwin. Will be paying our respects at Uruti tomorrow. Very proud of these men.
Public - Kathleen Elizabeth - Other relative - 24 April 2018
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From your distant relative - second cousin twice removed.
You signed up in your adopted country and paid the ultimate price.
Public - Murray - Other relative - 3 October 2017
Sources
External links
Documents
- Auckland Weekly News AWMM
Auckland Weekly News, 1918 AWMM - New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
Vol1: 30 AWMM - Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs. AWMM
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 AWMM - Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2015). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-3). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications AWMM
Vol. 1: Includes portrait AWMM - 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. AWMM
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