Biography of Lance Corporal Christopher Henry Baxter, (43015)
7th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
Formerly 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
Died 14th August 1918
Soldier
- Name: Christopher Henry Baxter
- Date of birth: 1890
- Place of Birth: Lenton, Lincolnshire, England
- Date of Birth Registration: July – September 1890
- Place of Birth Registration: Grantham, Lincolnshire, England
Father
- Name: Charles William Baxter
- DOB: 1866
- Place of Birth: Great Humby, Lincolnshire, England
- Occupation: Waggoner on fram
Mother
- Name: Sarah Jane Bradford
- DOB: 1867
- Place Of Birth: Lenton, Lincolnshire, England
- Marriage: 1887 Grantham District
Siblings: (Name), (DOB), (POB)
- Mary Elizabeth Bradford, 1887, Lenton
- Sarah Jane Baxter, 1890, Lenton (Died 1906)
- Christopher Henry Baxter, 1890, Lenton
- Edith A Baxter, 1893, Lenton
- Charles William Baxter, 1893, Haceby
Census
- 1891: Christopher is living with his parents at his grandparents house in Lenton, Lincolnshire
- 1901: Christopher is living with his father in Haceby, Lincolnshire
- 1911: Christopher is living with the Faulkner family in Humby, Lincolnshire. The census gives him an age of 20 and he is listed as a waggoner on farm
Relatives in services
- None found
Wife
- Name: Alice Horsman
- Date of birth: 1894
- Place of Birth: Spanby, Lincolnshire, England
Marriage
- Date of Marriage: 1915
- Place of Marriage: Bourne District, Lincolnshire
Children
- Alice Cambrai Baxter, 1918, Bourne
Wife’s parents
- Father: Edward Horsman
- Mother: Annie cooke
Newspaper Mentions
- Grantham Journal Saturday 16th June 1917
LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT CASUALTIES
Wounded
Baxter 43015 C. (Bourne)
Military Records
Attestation Papers
- None found
Soldier’s Died In The Great War
- These records show that Lance Corporal Christopher Henry Baxter, 43015, 7th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment was killed in action on 14th August 1918 in France and Flanders.
Pension Records
- Available
Effects Left Too
- Widow Alice
Medals
- The British Medal
- The Victory Medal
Memorials
- UK:
- Bourne, Roll of Honour in Bourne Abbey Church
Bourne War Memorial in the Memorial Gardens
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
- In memory of Lance Corporal C H Baxter, 43015, 7th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment who died on 14 August 1918.
- Remembered with honour, Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres.
- Grave VIII. E. 13.
© Picture taken by South Lincolnshire War Memorials
© Picture taken by South Lincolnshire War Memorials
Military Service Timeline
- Enlisted in Bourne
- Died of wounds
- This is ongoing research and will be posted when completed
Sources
- WW1 Soldier’s Records (www.ancestry.co.uk)
- British Newspaper Archive.
- Fold 3
- Find My Past
- Genealogist
- Forces War Records
- British Army Service Numbers
- War Gratuity Calculator
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- National Archives – Battalion War Diaries
- General Registry Office