Albert Victor BALDWIN

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BALDWIN, Albert Victor

Service Number:	4513
Enlisted:	10 October 1916, Melbourne, Vic.
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	29th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Nathalia, Victoria, Australia, 1889
Home Town:	Barooga, Berrigan, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Miner
Died:	Wounds, France, 12 December 1917
Cemetery:	Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck, Nord Pas de Calais Grave II. B. 40,
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Cobram Barooga RSL War Memorial, Nathalia Rock and Chain Memorial

World War 1 Service

10 Oct 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4513, 29th Infantry Battalion, Melbourne, Vic.
16 Dec 1916:	Involvement Private, 4513, 29th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: ''
16 Dec 1916:	Embarked Private, 4513, 29th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Medic, Melbourne
12 Dec 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 4513, 29th Infantry Battalion, SW to left arm, left knee and right leg. Evacuated to 2nd CCS however died of his wounds later the same day.

Private Albert Victor BALDWIN

From Lost Nathalia

No 4513 Private Albert Victor BALDWIN

29th Battalion 8th Brigade 5th Div. AIF
Born at Barwo in November 1889. His parents were Joseph Henry BALDWIN & Louisa (nee Williams) who lived at Barmah East.
Albert left Port Melbourne October 1916 on the liner Medic, arriving in Plymouth, England in February 1917
Albert Baldwin was killed just four days before his unit were pulled back from the front lines.
He was one of two ill-fated members of his 29th Battalion
who died on December 12, 1917
Albert was struck down with wounds to the left arm, left knee joint and right thigh. He was taken to the 8th Australian Field Ambulance station, then on to the 2nd Australian Causality Clearing station. Albert was buried in Trois Arbres Cemetery, close to the village of Steenwerck, France. In April 1918 this cemetery contained 948 graves of which 466 were Australian. This cemetery also contains the grave of the most senior AIF officer killed in action on the Western Front , Major-General William Holmes, age 55 years.
Albert was 28 years of age ... Lest We Forget ..... JM

Barooga Boy

4513 Private Albert Victor Baldwin 29th Battalion AIF died of wounds 12th December 1917.
Albert stated that he was born at Nathalia and lived with his mother Louisa in Barooga NSW when he enlisted 10th October 1916. He gave his age as 27 and occupation as a miner.
Albert Baldwin left Australia during December 1916 and after many months training in England was taken on strength of the 29th Battalion in France on the 26th October 1917. He survived only 6 weeks before he was mortally wounded, 12th December 1917. He suffered severe shrapnel wounds to his left arm, left knee and right arm. He died a few hours after being taken to Casualty Clearing Station. He was given a decent burial by a padre in the Trois-Arbres Cemetery (Plot II, Row B, Grave No.40), Steenwerck, France.

Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

4513 Private Albert Victor Baldwin 29th Battalion AIF died of wounds 12 December 1917.

Albert played football with Boomanoomana during 1914 and lived with his mother Louisa in Barooga NSW when he enlisted 10 October 1916. His father had died 2 years previously. He was very fair and with blue eyes, 26 years of age and gave his occupation as a miner.

Albert Baldwin left Australia during December 1916 and after many months training in England was taken on strength of the 29th Battalion in France on the 26 October 1917. He survived only 6 weeks before he was mortally wounded, on the 12 December 1917. He suffered severe shrapnel wounds to his left arm, left knee and right arm. He died a few hours after being taken to Casualty Clearing Station. He was given a decent burial by a padre in the Trois-Arbres Cemetery (Plot II, Row B, Grave No.40), Steenwerck, France.

His mother placed the following notice in the Cobram Courier one year later,

BALDWIN - In loving memory of Private Albert Victor Baldwin 29th Battalion, beloved son of Mrs. L. Baldwin, Barooga, who gave his life to the Empire in Belgium on the 12th December 1917, aged 28 years.

“Died of wounds, say the cables,

That is all the tale they tell

Of the brave young lad who loved us,

Of the lad we loved so well.

How his life was spent we know not,

What the last word, look or thought,

Only that he did his duty,

Died as bravely as he fought.”—Inserted by his loving mother.

Biography

Service Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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