Born: c1890
Died: 5 September 1916
Buried: War Loy -Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension
Address: 65 Aire Street, Windhill
Parents:
Spouse: Yes
Siblings:
Occupation: Hodgson’s Loom Works, Frizinghall
Organisations/clubs: Windhill Liberal Club; Windhill Primitive Methodist Sunday School
Military
Rank: Pte
Medals/awards:
Rolls of Honour: Christchurch, Windhill
Children: One
Regiment: 6 West Yorkshire
Ernest Baxter
Private Ernest Baxter of 65 Aire
Street, Windhill, and of the West
Yorkshire Regiment, has died of
wounds.
He was severely wounded on
September 3rd and death took place
two days later, his case being
hopeless from the first.
Private Baxter, who was 26 years of
age, leaves a widow and one child.
He was a member of the Windhill
Liberal Club, where the flag has
been hoisted half-mast as a token of
respect. He attended the Windhill
Methodist Church.
Before the war he was employed at
Hodgson’s Loom Works, Frizing-
hall
The Rev R Whincup, in the course
of a letter to Mrs Baxter, said:
“Your husband seemed very
cheered to see me after he had been
wounded and even rather amused
me because he would persist in
talking to me although the doctor
kept telling him that he must not do
so. He was in too serious condition
to exert himself in any way.
“It appears that the regiment had
been engaged in a stiff fight with
the enemy. The doctor seemed
distinctly hopeful that Pte Baxter
would recover and I believed so
myself. He did not appear to suffer
very much pain and before he was
sent to the base, he seized my hand
and asked me to write to you. I
believe that he suffered from a
bayonet wound to the stomach.”
Shipley Times & Express
29 September 1916
