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Norfolk & Norwich Hospital
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L/Cpl. James Henry Melton Todd 11th (Hull Commercials) Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment (d.28th Mar 1918)
James Todd (my great-uncle) was mortally wounded during the defence of Ayette, on the 27th of March 1918, and died at Doullens the following day.He had previously been wounded in late 1916 or early 1917 and treated at Puchervillers Hospital, where he made friends with a Welsh soldier, David Jones. He gave Private Jones his soldier's New Testament, with an inscription "To my friend Pte Jones 53911 as a token for his great kindness to me while in Puchervillers Hospital on his day of evacuation 13th January 1917, Pte Jim Todd with best wishes". In 2006, this book turned up in a charity shop in Colwyn Bay, and a local woman, Mrs Bowen, purchased it with the intention of tracing the family. After a correspondence in the local magazine, Hull in Print, she was able to reunite it with the family of my aunt Mrs Wray, one of Jim's nieces.
Jim's mother, Sarah Jane, visited his grave at Doullens on one of the one-month passports that were issued especially for next-of-kin. She gave a false date of birth on the passport, to hide her paper-trail for legal reasons.
Jim's birth in 1893 was registered under the surname Melton, which was the name of her legal husband, whom she had left (together with an infant son) in Scarborough when she came to Hull for fish-gutting work c 1891. His father (and the father of her younger children, including my grandfather) was John Thomas Todd, with whom she had a bigamous marriage ceremony in 1905.
M M Gilchrist
Pte. Reginald Baker 13th Battalion (d.11th Apr 1917)
Reginald Baker was born in Tuena to Stephen and Katherine A Baker. He joined the Australian Imperial Force, he was aged 21 years 4 months. He was 5'9" 142lbs blue eyes brown hair. His trade was a station hand. Papers state that he was born in Abercrombie, which is not correct, he was born in Tuena, NSW. In 1920 his parents were living in Portland NSW,where his medals and memorial scroll were sent.He was appointed to the 8th Reinforcement 13th Battalion. On 30th of October 1915 he reportedly had shoulder infection, put down to paratitis in Cairo. He proceeded to join MEF in Alexandria on 4th of November 1915 and joined 13th Battalion in Gallipoli on the 13th of November 1915. On evacuation, he disembarked at Alexandria ex Mudros per HT Tunisian on the 3rd of January 1916 and proceeded to join BEF ex Alexandria on the 1st of June 1916, then disembarked in Marseilles on the 8th of June 1916. Reginald received a gun shot wound on 29th of June 1916 and was evacuated on the St Denis from Boulogne for England. He was admitted to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital on 2nd of July 1916 with back and skull wounds.
By 23rd of September 1916 headed back overseas to France. He suffered from VD for a good while and was admitted on 29th of December 1916 to the 51st General Hospital at Etaples. He was discharged for duty and marched out to his unit from Etaples on the in March 1917, he was sick a total period of 81 days. He reported to 13th Battalion on 20th of March 1917. 20 days later on 14th of April 1917 he was reported missing in action in France, a Court of Enquiry held in October found he was Killed in Action at Bullecourt.
A Letter to Stephen Baker on 28th of June 1921 says with regret the Graves Service Unit has been unable to find Reginald's final resting place. It requested that any letters or communications they had that referred to the circumstances surrounding his death be supplied to aid the identification of bodies that were being recovered so that they wouldn't become an unknown Australian soldier, in the new Military Cemeteries.
His father Stephen Baker signed the receipt for issue of a Memorial Scroll on 13th of October 1921 and Kings message, then a Memorial Plaque for his son Reginald on 28th of September 1922 and his Victory Medal on 13th of March 1923. He was entitled to a 1914-15 Star Medal, a British War Medal, and Victory Medal.
Amanda Kerby
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