Robert Edmund Baldwin MM

Rank:

Sergeant

Regimental number:

310601

Unit at enlistment:

9th Brigade, C.F.A.

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Awards or decorations:

Military Medal

Commemorated at:

St. James Anglican Church (Paris), Paris District High School Honour Roll

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

York

Birth city:

Toronto, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

196 Wellesley Avenue, Toronto, Ontario

Next of kin address:

Warwick Street, Paris, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Bank clerk

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Gallantry medals:

Yes

Letters and documents

Awards and decorations

London Gazette: 31142
Date: January 24, 1918
Honour or Award: Military Medal
Authority: C.O. 1899, September 11, 1918
Name: Robert Edmund Baldwin (310601)
Unit: 9th Brigade C.F.A.

BC October 3, 1918

Paris Soldiers Win Recognition – Corporal Fraser Lorne Hilborn and Sergeant Robert Edmund Baldwin are Honored for Valor – Win Military Medal

(From Our Own Correspondent)

PARIS, October 2 – On Monday, Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Hilborn, Jane Street received word that their son, Corporal Fraser Lorne Hilborn, had won a military medal, and has been recommended for a commission. He went into the fight on August 8th as a corporal when through bravery under fire and the skilful handling of the men; Fraser came out a Sergeant-Major.

Another Paris boy to win a military medal is Sergeant Robert Edmund Baldwin, of the 34th Battery, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Baldwin, Warwick Street. At the battle of Amiens, Sergeant Baldwin took his guns close up in support of the advancing infantry, greatly assisting and affording protection to the men. It will be remembered that Nursing Sister Miss Dorothy Baldwin, sister of the above, was one of the nurses cruelly murdered when the Germans bombed the Canadian military hospital at Boulogne last June. Both the above young people were former pupils of the Paris High School, so many of whom have brought honor to Paris and this school in winning a military medal.