BALDWIN G.

George Baldwin 

Private 16290

11th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)

George Baldwin died on Monday 17 July 1916, Age 29, and was buried in SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD CEMETERY, Nottinghamshire on 22 July 1916. (Grave Ref AJ1216.)

He was the son of John and Eliza Baldwin, of 42 Coburn Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield.

Notts Free Press, 21st July 1916

Soldiers Death - The death took place at Stretford Hospital on Monday of Private George Baldwin, whose home was at Silk Street. Deceased, who was 29 years of age and single, formerly worked as a Stoker at the Sutton Gasworks. He enlisted in the 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters in October 1914, and was severely wounded in the head by shrapnel on July 1st after being at the front for nine months. The remains have been conveyed to Sutton and will be interred with full military honours in the cemetery tomorrow. (Saturday)

Notts Free Press - Sutton's Roll of Honour - 10th January 1919

Baldwin, Private George, Sherwood Foresters

From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’

BALDWIN George, Born Nottingham, Enlisted Mansfield, Notts (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield), 11th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby) Private 16290, died of wounds, France & Flanders, 17th July 1916.

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