Baines Sidney Private 83889

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Surname: Baines;

Forename(s): Sidney;

Initials: S;

Number: 83889;

Rank: Private;

Born in: Heath, Beds;

Enlisted in: Luton;

Enlistment Date: 11-Dec-1915;

Resided in: Leighton Buzzard;

Previous Number: 8785;

Previous Battalion: 3/5 of;

Previous Regiment: Bedf Regt;

Date of transfer to MGC: 01-Feb-1917;

MGC Branch: Cavalry;

MGC Unit: 18 Sqn;

Date abroad: 20-Jun-1917;

Theatre of War: 4;

How killed: D;

Where: Syria;

When killed: 19-Oct-1918;

Other Data: WO363 (FMP)
Died of Malignant Malaria
14 Windmill St, Luton
Common-law wife, Nellie Holding, 14 Windmill St, Luton - mother of his 2 children
Received Pension as guardain of 2 Childred - Gwendoline Elsie Baines Holding (b.11/10/1914) & Sidney John Baines Holding (b 14/6/1916)
SJB Holding living 30 Regent St, Luton in 1939 Register, with sister, then GE Bassett, later Cox
Nellie Holding married Fensome 1921 - 1939 Register living 152 Hitchen Rd, Luton;

Other Notes: BAINE, Private, S, 83889. 18th Sqn. Machine Gun Corps (Cav). 19th October 1918. B. 111. Damascus Commonwealth War Cemetery, Syria.
(NB: BAINES on MIC );

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