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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