SOLDIER DETAILS:
Baguley,
Frederick
Private 16th Battalion 718192
April 9, 1917
Vimy
Memorial
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Private
Baguley is not listed on either of the Milton Cenotaphs.
Private Baguley is recorded in the
Book of Remembrance, Parliament Buildings Ottawa. He is
memorialized on the Vimy Memorial in France. |
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| There are many excellent texts that detail the
Battle of Vimy Ridge from the Canadian standpoint. For the avid
reader, one of the best with respect to details on the
individual units is "Victory
at Vimy, Canada Comes of Age" by Ted Barris. For the
"military enthusiast" we can suggest "Vimy
Ridge, A Canadian Reassessment", from the Laurier Centre
for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies. |
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SOLDIER SUMMARY:
| Private Baguley
attested to the 107th Infantry Battalion in Winnipeg (Camp
Hughes) on January 6, 1916. He is linked to Milton through
his sister, Frances Gallagher, his next-of-kin from Milton
Ontario.
The service record of Private Baguley shows that he shipped
to England with his unit (S.S.
Olympic 25-9-1916). The 107th Infantry Battalion converted
to the 107th Pioneer Battalion, however Baguley was transferred
instead to the 16th Infantry Battalion. The transfer took place
in England on November 28, 1916.
The next entry for Private Baguley was the notice that he had
been killed in action on April 9, 1917, on the opening day of
the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
The 16th Battalion (3rd Infantry Brigade, 1st Canadian
Division) was on the far right of the attack on Vimy Ridge, next
to the British 3rd Army, 17th Corps. The 1st Division was led by
General Arthur Currie, who would become General of the Canadian
Corps after Vimy. The 1st Division attack involved a front of
over a mile with six assaulting battalions. The units advanced
quickly until they reached Zwolfer-Graben, the southern end of
the Black Line objective. Well sited machine guns inflicted
heavy losses on the Canadian units. Private Baguley would have
been with Private Milne (V.C. award at that battle), as they
took on the machine gun forces.
Private Baguley was one of 10,602 Canadian casualties at
Vimy, of which 3,598 were fatal. |
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The soldier pages contain information
that is available from a number of resources. The following hyperlinks
are active where the information is available:
The summary of the service is taken from
the soldier's service records, if they were available from Library and
Archives Canada. A complete copy of the service record is
available in electronic and paper format in the Alex
Cooke Memorial Archives at the Milton Historical Society.
Using that summary, combined with the key references, a summary of the
events leading up to the death of the soldier has been prepared.
The research information available is as noted on the Canadian
Expeditionary Force Study Group web site Matrix
Project as well as in the Library and Archives Canada On-Line
War Diaries.
A summary of all the soldiers is
contained on the Web Blog "Great
War Soldiers of Milton, Ontario CANADA". Please also
be sure to purchase your own copy of "Milton
Remembers World War I - The Men and Women We Never Knew" by
John Challinor II and Jim Dills, edited by Ken Lamb. |
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