Archibald McColl Larmond Baxter

Forenames

Archibald McColl Larmond AWMM

Surname

Baxter AWMM

Also known as

• Archibald McColl Learmond Baxter AWMM
• Archibald Baxter AWMM

Service number

WWI 47814 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

13 Dec 1881 Public Source

Date of birth

13 December 1881

Public - Martin - 17 February 2016 - http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3b19/baxter-archibald-mccoll-learmond

Place of birth

Saddle Hill, Otago, New Zealand

Public - Martin - 17 February 2016 - http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3b19/baxter-archibald-mccoll-learmond

Post war occupation

Labourer

Public - Martin - 17 February 2016 - http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3b19/baxter-archibald-mccoll-learmond

Next of kin

WW1 John Baxter (father), Brighton, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 47814 AWMM

Enlistment

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM
• Following the introduction of military conscription in November 1916, Baxter was quickly balloted an
  Public - Martin - 17 February 2016 - http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/people/archibald-baxter

Occupation before enlistment

Head Ploughman at Gladbrook Station

Public - Martin - 17 February 2016 - http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3b19/baxter-archibald-mccoll-learmond

Embarkation details

WW1 24 Jul 1917-25 Sep 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 89 AWMM Vessel was Waitemata AWMM Private AWMM 28th Reinforcements, E Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

• Conscientious objector:
  
  Father of poet James K Baxter
  
  Name is listed in the Nominal Roll as Baxter, Archibald McColl Larmond AWMM
• Baxter is author of "We will not cease". A record of his story as a conscientious objector during WW1 and the brutality he suffered for his views.
  Public - Allan Harvey - Comrade - 6 March 2015 - We will not cease, first published 1939.

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22273524
  Further Reference
• Grant, David. 'Baxter, Archibald McColl Learmond 1881 - 1970'. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, updated 22 June 2007
  http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/
  Further Reference
• Baxter, Archibald. We will not cease.
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-BaxWeWi.html
  Further Reference
• Te Ara biography
  http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3b19/baxter-archibald-mccoll-learmond
  Further Reference

References

• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  69: 9
• Baxter, A. (1980). We will not cease. Whatamongo Bay, New Zealand: Cape Catley.
• Grant, D. (c.2008). Field punishment no. 1 : Archibald Baxter, Mark Briggs & New Zealand's anti-militarist tradition. Wellkngton, N.Z.: Steele Roberts).
• Dapin, M. (ed). (2013). From the trenches : the best Anzac writing of World War One. Melbourne, Australia: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books.
• 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. 5: Includes portrait
• HMNZT 89 - 1NZEF: 28th Reinforcements. (1917). Te kiwi: 28th Reinf. Cape Times Ltd