Baird, David Eugene

BAIRD,

DAVID EUGENE

BORN 1882

David Eugene Baird was born

in 1882 in Aldershot, Hampshire, son of Captain David Baird (b 1844 in Ireland) and Jannette Baird (b 1846 in Ireland).

Census records from 1891 show the family living in Ilkley, Yorkshire.

David entered the School on 14 March 1892, aged 10. At that time the family lived at 12 West Mall, Clifton, Bristol. His father was a retired officer from the West Riding Regiment. He attended the School for a very short time, leaving before the end of March 1892.

David married Elizabeth M F Jackson in 1916. He rose to the rank of Company Sergeant Major in the Border

Regment, 1st Battalion, before dying of his wounds on 6 July 1916, aged 34. His War Grave is in Beauval Communal Cemetery, Somme, France, (grave reference F7).

He left his father David Baird of Ullard House, Borris, County Carlow and his wife Elizabeth M F Baird of Ash Brook, Roscrea, County Tipperary. David is remembered in the Book of Remembrance, in Peace Tower, Ottawa.

His connection with Canada has not yet been discovered.

Book of Remembrance in the Peace Tower, Ottawa

Fifth Panel

The centrepiece of the Memorial Chamber on Parliament Hill is the main altar, which holds the First World War Book of Remembrance. The altar rests on steps made of stone quarried from Flanders Fields

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