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No.2 New Zealand General Hospital, Walton-on-Thames    No.2 New Zealand General Hospital opened on the 31st of July 1915 at Mount Felix in Walton-on-Thames. If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. We are currently building a database of patients treated in this hospital, if you know of anyone who was treated here, please enter their details via this form Patient Reports. (This section is under construction) No information has been added for this hospital, please check back later. Those known to have worked or been treated at No.2 New Zealand General Hospital, Walton-on-Thames during the Great War 1914-1918. Baldwin Irwin. Rflmn. All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of No.2 New Zealand General Hospital, Walton-on-Thames from other sources. 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There are:0 items tagged No.2 New Zealand General Hospital, Walton-on-Thames available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. 242541 Rflmn. Irwin Baldwin 2nd Battalion NZ Rifle Brigade Irwin Baldwin was born in Steeton, near Keighley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1884. He served in the police force in Goole in the East Riding of Yorkshire until 1909 when he contracted rheumatic fever and left the force. In 1910 he emigrated to New Zealand and settled in Palmerston North, where a cousin was already living. He worked as a driver for the Swan Dairy Company and then an engineer for the NZ Dairy Union. In 1914 his younger brother Thomas Edward Baldwin joined him in New Zealand. Both brothers volunteered for the armed services in 1915, but Irwin was refused, probably on account of having had rheumatic fever. His brother, Tom, was accepted and was posted to the NZ Rifle Brigade. Irwin applied for a second time and was attested on 4th September 1917. He joined 'D' Company, 35th Reinforcements. His regiment embarked on the SS Tofua on 2nd March 1918 and after a short break in Suez arrived in Southampton on 15th May 1918. On 19 June 1918 he was transferred into the reserves for the Rifle Brigade and on 27th of August 1918 was detailed for course instruction at Brocton Camp in Staffordshire. He qualified as a Lance Corporal and joined 'B' Company, 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade on 17th September 1918. It is probable that Irwin was stationed at Brocton Camp shortly after his arrival in England in May 1918. He was finally posted to the Front on 21st September 1918. On 4th November 1918 he took part in the attack on the old fortress town of Le Quesnoy in northeastern France. He was severely wounded in the shoulder, right buttock and right leg when a shrapnel shell burst nearby. His right leg was amputated. He spent some months recovering at the New Zealand hospital at Walton on Thames and eventually embarked for New Zealand on board the SS Arawa on 5th October 1919. His younger brother, Tom, fought at Flers on the Somme Front, Messines and Passchendaele. He was wounded in both knees on 12th October 1917 during the attack on Passchendaele. He also had his right leg amputated. Irwin served for a second time with the New Zealand armed forces during WW2, in a clerical capacity and died in Palmerston North in 1962. His brother Tom died in 1966 and is buried in Steeton Cemetery. Robin Longbottom Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices. Links Suggest a link

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