{"id":6432,"date":"2025-04-03T20:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T19:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6432"},"modified":"2025-04-03T20:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T19:21:12","slug":"baldwin-w-f-lt-dcm-mc-royal-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/baldwin-w-f-lt-dcm-mc-royal-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Baldwin W F Lt DCM MC Royal Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6433\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Baldwin-W-F-Lt-DCM-MC-Royal-Engineers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6433\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6433\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Baldwin-W-F-Lt-DCM-MC-Royal-Engineers-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Baldwin-W-F-Lt-DCM-MC-Royal-Engineers-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Baldwin-W-F-Lt-DCM-MC-Royal-Engineers.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baldwin W F Lt DCM MC Royal Engineers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>BALDWIN, WILLIAM FREDERICK, D.C.M., M.C., Temp. Lieut. (Acting Major), Royal Engineers, third s. of the late Harry Baldwin, of Colvestone Crescent, Dalston, London, N., and eldest s. of Ada Mary Baldwin, of Wharfedale, Albert Terrace, Margate: b. 3 Jan. 1895; was educ. at Margate College. He enlisted as a Sapper in the Royal Engineers 2 Sept. 1914, and served in France and Flanders with the Expeditionary Force from the following July, and was wounded in the Battle of Loos. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 7th Field Coy., Royal Engineers, in Dec. 1915; promoted Lieut. in Oct. 1917, Capt. in March, 1918, and made Acting Major 18 April, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne on 27 May following. His Colonel wrote: &#8220;His loss is deeply regretted by his company, in which he served a considerable time in the field and with which he did most brilliant work.&#8221; He was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Government for distinguished service in the Battle of Loos [London Gazette, 25 Feb. 1916], and also received the Distinguished Conduct Medal [London Gazette, 14 Jan. 1916]. Major Baldwin was also awarded the Military Cross [London Gazette, 21 Sept. 1918], &#8220;For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in handling his company at short notice, and with limited means at his disposal, he successfully completed a long line of posts during the night and held them until fully manned by other troops. His coolness and gallant conduct in action was most marked. Though often working with tired troops he invariably got a great deal of work done, and was always ready to deal efficiently with changing situations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BALDWIN, WILLIAM FREDERICK, D.C.M., M.C., Temp. Lieut. (Acting Major), Royal Engineers, third s. of the late Harry Baldwin, of Colvestone Crescent, Dalston, London, N., and eldest s. of Ada Mary Baldwin, of Wharfedale, Albert Terrace, Margate: b. 3 Jan. 1895; was educ. at Margate College. He enlisted as a Sapper in the Royal Engineers 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-engineers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6434,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432\/revisions\/6434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}