William Frank Gardiner Baird_Grange Cemetery (Walls) 8 Sep 2013 15-09

For further information see www.thepeerage.com/p12919.htm . Died of wounds 5th November 1914, aged 29. 4th Battalion attached 1st Lincolns. William was the second son of James Gardiner Baird, the 8th Bart of Saughton Hall Midlothian, formerly Lieutenant of the 7th Hussars, late Lt Colonel and Honorary Colonel Lothians and Berwickshire Imperial Yeomanry, and of the Honourable Arabella Rose Evelyn Hozier, the eldest daughter of the first Baron Newlands. He was born on the 18th of April 1885, was educated at Eton and Sandhurst and served for a time in the 7th Dragoon Guards and Scots Guards, afterwards retiring from active service and joining the reserve list as 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Bedfords. William was gazetted a Captain in the Bedfordshire Regiment on the 11th of August 1914 and went to the front attached to the 1st Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment. Captain Baird was wounded in an attack on Neuve Chapelle on October the 27th or 28th and died on the 5th of November in hospital at Boulogne, where he lies today. He was a member of the Cavalry Club and of the New Club Edinburgh and an underwriting member of Lloyds of London.. In 1910 he married Violet Mary Croft, the daughter of Richard Croft Benyon D.L. of Farnham's Hall Ware Herts and left three children, James Richard Gardiner born 1913, Lilias Mary born 1911 and William Henry Gardiner born 1914

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