BORN HULL 11/01/1889. SON OF ROBERT BAXTER (1846-1905) AND EMMA DALTON FLOUNDERS (1850-1935), OF 84, COURTNEY STREET, HULL. A RULLYMAN AND FORMER RECKITTS WORKER.
HE MARRIED AT HULL, IN 1908. HUSBAND AND EDITH ELIZABETH DOSDILL, OF 10 WILLOW GROVE, SOMERSET STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 54, CHESTNUT GROVE, GARDEN VILLAGE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 2450, 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 09/07/1915, AGED 25. HE IS BURIED AT R.E. FARM CEMETERY, BELGIUM.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON ST MARYS CHURCH MEMORIAL, LOWGATE, HULL & LISTED ON THE COURTNEY STREET MEMORIAL, HULL. ALSO RECORDED ON THE RECKITTS WW1 BOYS CLUB ROLL OF HONOUR.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, EDITH, WHO REMARRIED, JAMES MORRISON BRANSON, A SEAMAN, ON 16/11/1916, AND MOVED TO SHEFFIELD (WAR PENSION RECORDS)
HE WAS ONE OF FOUR SONS SERVING AND FEATURED IN THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER. HIS BROTHER, SERGEANT, HENRY BAXTER, 11th EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT WAS KILLED IN 1917. FRED BAXTER, SERVED IN THE SHERWOOD FORESTERS AND BEN BAXTER, IN THE HUSSARS.
