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BAXTER, Norman
(Service number 9/ 8)

Norman Baxter and his horse — (Courtesy of L Wright )

Waimate War Memorial, pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #01)

Waimate War Memorial (left panel), pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #04)

Aliases
First Rank	Lance Corporal	Last Rank	Lance Corporal

Birth

Date	07/03/1905	Place of Birth	Waimate

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Maori Hill, Dunedin
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	R.G Baxter (father), Maori Hill, Dunedin
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Otago Mounted Rifles
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Ruapehu or Hawkes Bay
Embarked From	Port Chalmers	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Otago Mounted Rifles

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	6 August 1915	Age	21
Place of Death	Gallipoli, Turkey
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	No.2 Outpost Cemetery, Turkey
Memorial Reference	Special Memorial 6
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Waimate First World War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Norman Baxter was the son of Robert Gilbert and Miriam Baxter of Sumner, Christchurch. Native of Dunedin. Date of death may have been 6 August or 7 August 1915

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph database (September 2013); SCRoll web submission from L Wright, 19 August 2015

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Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG & Timaru Herald

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