Volume 1: Letters written on active service, A-L, 1914-1919 - Page 18

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[Page 18]

[Sergeant Cecil Charles Harpur Baldwin MM, No 3019, a clerk from Rose Bay, NSW, joined the Army on 23 August 1915 at age 22, and embarked from Sydney on HMAT A29 Suevic on 20 December 1915. He served with B. Coy, 3rd Battalion, 7 months at Gallipoli and 6 months in France. He was awarded the Military Medal in 1916 and was killed in France on 1 March 1917.

Includes a cover note with his mother's address and a letter from Lieutenant Geoffrey H Leslie regarding his death.]
[Printed cover note]
Mrs Baldwin
Euroma,
Faraday Avenue,
Rose Bay.

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