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BAIGENT Ivanhoe Edward
3341, Trooper, 6 Contingent, South Africa
22618, 2nd Lieutenant, Wellington Mounted Rifles, WW1

CITATION
Distinguished Conduct Medal
Gazetted
One of a party which volunteered to carry despatches; ambushed and fired on at very close range and the corporal’s horse being shot, waited under heavy fire for him and bought him away safely.  Barstards Drift, Orange River Colony, 27 September 1901

AWARDS
Distinguished Conduct Medal
Mention in Despatches (South Africa)
Queens South Africa Medal
Transvaal, Orange Free State, Cape Colony, Soth Africa 1901, South Africa 1902
British War Medal
Victory Medal
Coronation Medal Edward VII
Coronation Medal George V

Memorial Plaque

NOTES
Born 10 November 1880, Nelson, New Zealand
Died of Wounds 14 November 1917, Palestine
Buried at El Kubribih Military Cemetery, Palestine