BAIRD, Thomas
| Service Number: | 5426 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 July 1915, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 12th Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Largs, Scotland, December 1876 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Iron driller |
| Died: | shell shock and concussion, Flers-Guedecourt sector, France, 22 November 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Heilly Station Cemetery Grave-VI. C. 3., Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L'Abbe, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, City of Brunswick Honour Roll, Motherwell War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5426, Melbourne, Victoria | |
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| 17 Dec 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Sapper, 5426, 5th Field Company Engineers, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Dec 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Sapper, 5426, 5th Field Company Engineers, HMAT Berrima, Sydney | |
| 20 Nov 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Sapper, 5426, 12th Field Company Engineers, Severe shell shock | |
| 22 Nov 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 5426, 12th Field Company Engineers, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 5426 awm_unit: 12th Field Company, Australian Engineers awm_rank: Sapper awm_died_date: 1916-11-22 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Enlisted 15/7/15 and posted to 5th Field Company Engineers, 2nd Reinforcements. Taken on strength, 5th Field Company Engineers, 18/3/16. Wounded, 20/11/16.
Age at embarkation 38
Next of kin: Wife, Mrs Mary Baird, 39 Wilson Street, Brunswick, Victoria.
He is honourd on the Motherwell War Memorial though the conection to Motherwell is not known.
It was unveiled on 30 October 1921, attended by Lord Claude Hamilton.
It stands in the Duchess of Hamilton Park in Motherwell,
Strathclyde, ML1, Scotland.
It is a three-stepped base surmounted by a square plinth with posts surmounted by urns at each corner, cenotaph style column and a lion couchant. Four reliefs are carved at each side of the base of the column. Dark polished marble tablets are set in the faces of the plinth with the names. Below the urns are the names of campaigns fought. On the front face of the column is a sword within a wreath. Carved relief on the front face depicts the Motherwell crest flanked by two Scottish soldiers standing at ease. Beside each of them is a kneeling soldier holding out a flag. The right hand relief depicts a naval scene with three ships, a zeppelin and a bi-plane. The rear panel depicts a tank on the battlefield and the left-hand panel depicts a Royal Artillery gun limber moving forward.
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