Born: 1895, Grantham, Lincs
Died: 18 March 1918
Buried: Aeroplane Cemetery, West Vaanderen, Belgium
Address: 9 Claremont, Highfield Road, Idle
Parents: Alice
Spouse:
Siblings: Frank, Doris, Laurence
Occupation: Drawing Jobber, Listers, Manningham
Organisations/clubs: Secretary Wrose Lane Sunday School
Military
Rank: Pte
Medals/awards:
Rolls of Honour: Holy Trinity, Idle
Children:
Regiment: Duke of Wellington’s
Moses Baxter
Born in Grantham in 1895, by 1901
Moses was living at 3 Claremont as
a boarder with Jonas Jenkinson
alongside his mother Alice, his
siblings Frank and Doris and his
aunt Lilian Baxter.
By 1911, his mother had married
quarryman Wellington Binns and
the family, with another brother,
Laurence, had moved to No9
Claremont.
On 29 March 1918 the Shipley
Times & Express carried a brief
note saying that Moses had fallen
in battle. This was followed up the
following week with this piece:
“Pte Moses Baxter, Duke of
Wellington’s Regt, son of Mrs
Binns of Claremont, Highfield
Road, Idle, died of wounds in both
legs and the left arm in a casualty
clearing station on 18th March,
aged 23.
“He enlisted on 3rd February 1916
and had been at the front nearly
two years.
“He worked at Lister’s,
Manningham, and was secretary at
the Wrose Lane Sunday School.
“A chaplain, writing to Mrs Binns,
says: ‘It is with great regret that I
write to tell you that your son, Pte
M Baxter, was badly wounded on
Saturday last and died of wounds
the same day.’
“He adds that Pte Baxter was
buried not far from where he fell
and that a cross will be set up over
his grave. Mrs Binns also received
sympathetic letters from an officer
and three of her son’s pals.
“Pte Baxter’s brother, Frank, is in
the Labour Battalion.”
