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Baxter, Ernest Alfred, Sapper, 43336, 81st Field Company, Royal Engineers Born Derby Enlisted Derby Died Home 1st December 1914

Aged 20 Son of Joseph William and Frances Baxter, of 39, Crosby Street, Derby Bulford Church Cemetery, Wiltshire, I, 2, 10

Derby Daily Express, 7th December 1914

DERBY LAD DROWNED SAD ACCIDENT AT BULFORD CAMP

‘Sapper Ernest Baxter, of the Royal Engineers, son of Mr. J. Baxter, of Derby, a well known member of the Beaconsfield Club. On Tuesday last young Baxter, who had recently joined his corps as a recruit, was engaged in some bridge operation with an improvised raft, when it overturned, and he was drowned.’ Ernest Baxter was employed at Ley’s Works.