Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookl, 1882; educ. privately and Dr. Osborn's, Colwyn Bay; qualified as an electrical engineer, and then entered the shipbuilding yard of Messrs. Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, at Wallsend. He received his first commission in 1913 as commander of a signalling section, and was in the Special Reserve of Officers. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service, and after being stationed at Blyth left for the Front about the middle of April, 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres on the 26th of that month; _unm._ The following is an extract from a letter read at the Newcastle Wesleyan Synod at Durham on 13 May: "Last night, after dark, we buried Lieut. Bainbridge and others. It was the most impressive ceremony I have ever attended. It was a beautiful moonlight night as we carried the bodies down the lines wrapped in blankets and lying on stretchers. As we passed each entrenched battn. the men stood to 'Attention.' At about a quarter of a mile from the trenches, on a piece of ground where about six other officers lie buried, we laid them to rest. The guns were roaring on every side, and the huge fire-balls the Germans threw into the air illuminated the sky. Lieut. Bainbridge was a plucky and good fellow." Prior to Lieut. Bainbridge being gazetted to the 5th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers he had held a commission in the Engineers Volunteers, and subsequently was a Cadet in the Senior Division, Durham University O.T.C. During his service in the 5th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers he endeavoured to qualify himself in every way to become as efficient a soldier as possible, and with this in view he did a month's tour of duty at the regimental depôt, receiving a good report on his work during that tour. He also prepared himself to qualify, and qualified in examination "B" for promotion to Capt. He took a month's course in signalling at Bulford Camp, at the end of which he qualified most satisfactorily. After this he became battn. signalling officer, and never spared himself in bringing his signallers into as high a state of efficiency as possible in all branches of military signalling. He also became interested in "wireless," and provided himself with an apparatus, which he studied with great zeal and ability. When the war broke out he commanded the Northumbrian Divisional Signalling Coy., and was consequently attached to the Northumbrian Divisional R.E. He was a popular officer with all ranks, was a keen rifle shot, and in 1913 won the revolver championship of Northumberland. He was also a very keen motorist, and, in fact, an all-round sportsman. [Illustration: =Thomas L. Bainbridge.=] =BAIRD, COLIN=, Sergt., No. 2768, D Coy., 1st/14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt., _s._ of Thomas Baird, of 25A, Wood Street, E.C., by his wife, Lucy Maria, dau. of Mark Williams; _b._ West Norwood, 5 Nov. 1886; educ. Lancaster College, West Norwood; killed in action near Loos, 13 Oct. 1915, while in charge of a party sent out to cut wire entanglements; _unm._ [Illustration: =Colin Baird.=] =BAIRD, STANLEY CHARLES=, Probationary 2nd Cook's Mate, No. Ch. M. 7600, H.M.S. Cressy, 4th _s._ of George Alexander Baird, of 4, Pleasant View, Farnborough, of the Metropolitan Water Board, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of Francis Balchin; _b._ Farnborough, co. Kent, 11 June, 1893; educ. Farnborough Board School; joined the Royal West Kent Territorials, 1912; entered the Navy, 12 May, 1914; lost in H.M.S. Cressy in North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; _unm._ =BAIRD, WILLIAM FRANK GARDINER=, Capt., 4th Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., yr. _s._ of Sir William James Gardiner Baird, of Saughton Hall, Midlothian, 8th Bt., J.P., Lieut.-Col. Lothians and Berwickshire Imperial Yeomanry, formerly 7th Hussars, by his wife, the Hon. Arabella Rose Evelyn Hozier, dau. of James Henry Cecil, 1st Lord Newlands; _b._ Inch House, Liberton, Midlothian, 15 April, 1885; educ. Castlemount, Eton and Sandhurst. Served in the 7th Dragoon Guards and Scots Guards. On the outbreak of war he received a commission from the Reserve of Officers as Capt. in the 4th Bedfordshires, 11 Aug. 1914, and went to the Front attached to the 1st Lincolnshire Regt. He _d._ 5 Nov. 1914, in hospital at Boulogne, from wounds received in action, and was buried there. Capt. Baird _m._ at Ware, 24 Nov. 1910, Violet Mary, dau. of the late Richard Benyon Croft, of Fanham's Hall, and had three children: James Richard Gardiner, _b._ 12 July, 1913; William Henry Gardiner, _b._ 11 Oct. 1914; and Lilias Mary, _b._ 26 Sept. 1911. =BAKER, EDWARD JAMES=, P.O., 1st Class, 164169, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =BAKER, EDWIN JOSEPH=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6773), 189515, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BAKER, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Sergt., No. 44, 54th Field Coy., R.E., _s._ of the late Frederick William Baker, of 118, Denmark Road, and Commercial Road, Lowestoft, General and Shipsmith, by his wife (--), dau. of (--) Naunton; _b._ Lowestoft, 8 Dec. 1876; educ. there; was apprenticed to his father, and was an old Volunteer in the Lowestoft Rifles; joined the R.E. as a sapper at Chatham, 2 March, 1895; served in the Bermudas, Canada, at Aldershot and in South Africa, and with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action near Fleurbaix, 7 Jan. 1915, being shot by a sniper. He was buried at Fleurbaix on the Bois Grenier Road. Sergt. Baker held the Long Service and Good Conduct medal with the crossed guns, and Lieut.-Col. D. S. MacInnes, D.S.O., wrote: "Sergt. W. Baker, when I knew him, was section sergt. of the 54th Field Coy., R.E. He was particularly capable and resourceful, and inspired great confidence in the men of his section. His bravery when making wire entanglements in the face of the enemy, and in other dangerous work was beyond all praise." He _m._ at Broadstairs, 26 Nov. 1904, Maud Elizabeth (The Ridge Cottage, Crawley Hill, Camberley), dau. of William Fisher, Dockyard Pensioner, and had issue three sons and two daus.: Frederick William Naunton, _b._ 25 Nov. 1906; Montague Reginald, _b._ 1 Aug. 1908; Robert Naunton, _b._ 15 July, 1913; Elsie Maud, _b._ 29 Sept. 1905; and Irene Naunton, _b._ 23 Oct. 1910. [Illustration: =Frederick William Baker.=] =BAKER, GEORGE BRANDON=, Elect. Art., 3rd Class, M. 399, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =BAKER, HENRY TILLET=, Armourer, 345914, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BAKER, JAMES HENRY=, Rifleman, No. 971, 8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt., 2nd _s._ of Samuel Baker, of Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, ex-Police Constable, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of Thomas Durrance; _b._ Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, 21 Aug. 1875; educ. St. Andrew's School, Clapham. He was a postman, and had done 25 years' service at Brixton. He joined the old 24th Middlesex Volunteers in 1896, and after |