Herbert Baines
View Herbert on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission websiteService number:
7589
Rank:
Private
Service:
Lincolnshire Regiment
Origin:
Date of birth:
Unknown
Date of death:
15 March 1915
Age at Death:
Unknown
Known information
Private Herbert Baines of the 2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment had seen ten years military service. He had been in Egypt for five years and went to France at the start of the war. He was killed by a shell at Neuve Chapelle on 15 March 1915, and was buried at Richebourg, but after the war his body was never recovered and he is now remembered on Le Touret Memorial, Panel 8. His brother George also died. Neither has a known grave but both brothers are remembered on Hambleton's war memorial.
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Rutland and The Battle of the Somme
More than 90 Rutland soldiers died in the Battle of the Somme which lasted from 1 July 1916 until the middle of November. Today they lie in cemeteries across the old battlefield in northern France or are remembered among the 72,000 names on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. By using our interactive map, you can find out what happened to them.
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