Baverstock, Ernest

SOLDIER DETAILS:

Baverstock, Ernest
Private 24th Battalion 142260
October 1, 1916
Contay British Cemetery, France
Wife Anna was from Milton
Maple Leaf Legacy Project

Victoria Park Cenotaph
R. Laughton

Contay British Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves

Maple Leaf Legacy Project

Private Baverstock is remembered on the Victoria Park Cenotaph in Milton ON.

Ernest Baverstock is buried in the Contay British Cemetery in France (Grave I. F. 10).

Other Links:

	CEFSG Matrix Unit Information 24th Infantry Battalion
	Library and Archives Canada 24th Infantry Battalion and War Diary for September 1916
	Nicholson Chapter VI and Map 5 for Battle of the Somme and Map 6 for Courcelette Sector September 1916.

SOLDIER SUMMARY:

Private Baverstock was one of many of the Halton lads that served with the 20th Halton Rifles, guarding armouries. He attested with the 76th then was transferred to "B" Coy of the 24th Infantry Battalions in France.

He was wounded by artillery fire near Courcelette, France on September 14, 1916, the day before combined British and Canadian forces launched a major at Courcelette. This was one of the first battles to use tanks.

The war diary of September 14, 1914 reports that the 24th Battalion was cleaning trenches under the 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade, when heavy artillery was received. There were 2 men killed and 9 men wounded, Private Baverstock apparently being one of the wounded.

Private Baverstock was admitted to the No 10 Canadian Field Ambulance with shrapnel wounds to his right thigh and testicles. The records show that he did not leave #9 Casualty Clearing Station, where he died of his wounds on October 1, 1916.

Location of units, September 15, 1916.

The soldier pages contain information that is available from a number of resources. The following hyperlinks are active where the information is available:

	Soldier Name: Veteran Affairs Canada, Canadian Virtual War Memorial
	Soldier Number: Library and Archives Canada, Attestation Papers
	Cemetery: Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Debt of Honour Register
	Remembrance: Maple Leaf Legacy Project, Remembrance of Canada's War Dead

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.