Joseph Patrick (Joe) BAXTER

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BAXTER, Joseph Patrick

Service Number:	410
Enlisted:	17 August 1915, An original of B Company, 31st Bn
Last Rank:	Bombardier
Last Unit:	14th Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 25 February 1894
Home Town:	Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Carter
Died:	Killed in action, France, 16 September 1918, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	Cerisy-Gailly French National Cemetery, France Plot I, Row D, Grave No. 15.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ithaca War Memorial

World War 1 Service

17 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 410, 31st Infantry Battalion, An original of B Company, 31st Bn
9 Nov 1915:	Involvement Private, 410, 31st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: ''
9 Nov 1915:	Embarked Private, 410, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne
9 Jul 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 14th Field Artillery Brigade
9 Aug 1918:	Involvement AIF WW1, Bombardier, 410, 14th Field Artillery Brigade
16 Sep 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Bombardier, 410, 14th Field Artillery Brigade , K.I.A.

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Baxter was killed when a aeroplane bomb hit the cellar he was occupying on the evening of 16 September 1918, near Buire, just east of Peronne, less than two months before the Armistice. Two other members of his unit, the 14th Field Artillery Brigade, Thomas King M.M. and Charles Kedge, died in the same attack. All three were buried in the Buire Communal Cemetery Extension. In 1925, the remains of serviceman at Buire were shifted to the Cerisy-Gailly French National Cemetery, at Cerisy in France. The three Australian artillerymen are buried side by side in the cemetery.

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