Baldwin James Walter Lance Sergeant 3658495
Personnel Entry
Name Baldwin James Walter
Army number 3658495
Rank Lance-Sergeant
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Born Warrington, probably 1918/19.
Age 29 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in the South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales Volunteers) 18/4/40. Carried out Basic Training. Transferred to The Durham Light Infantry 27/6/40, and posted to the 10th Battalion The DLI. Served Iceland? Served Normandy. Wounded. DIED of WOUNDS 19/6/44.
Company/Battery Company not known.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role Not known but probably Rifle Platoon Sergeant.
Joined Brigade 27-Jun-40
Promotions None known beyond Lance Sergeant.
Wounded Yes - reported wounded N W Europe 19/6/1944.
Prisoner of War Not so far as is known.
Died/Killed in action DIED of WOUNDS 19-Jun-44. Initially interred at St Vigeur le Grand Map reference 7F/1 1/50,000 807.795. Re-buried 29/3/1945 in Grave XIV. H. 10. Bayeux War Cemetery. Headstone inscription reads: THE STRIFE IS O'ER THE BATTLE IS WON. REST IN PEACE.
Home address Resident of Warrington. Son of Stanley and Mary Baldwin, husband of Olive Baldwin, Warrington, Lancashire.
Source table 10DLI
Lance-Sergeant Baldwin was mortally wounded alongside the two members of the Bren Group (Pte Edwin Leonard Palmer and Pte Raymond Smiles) from Sgt Elliott's Platoon, who were also casualties, while he was supporting them in assisting an assault by another Platoon from 10th Battalion. He had volunteered to take on this role in the absence, injured, of the Gun Group Commander. The circumstances are described in Sgt Elliott's interview with the Imperial War Museum. The assaulting Platoon itself did not suffer any casualties in this attack.
