WWI M.C. GROUP OF 7 MEDALS TO MAJ. M.C. BALDWIN, 2/8 G.R.

Military Cross Gazetted 22 Dec 1916.

M.I.D. Gazetted 19 Oct 1916.

Baldwin was awarded the Military Cross for his bravery during the Battle of Bait Aissa in Mesopotamia:

"The infantry advance began a few minutes before 7 a.m. under a heavy rifle fire from front and left flank. The fire, being high, did not do much harm, and by 7-8 a.m. the 1st Gurkhas were in the front Turkish trench, and the 9th Gurkhas started bombing S.W. down the trench.

The 1st Gurkhas then pushed on to a water-course in front. At 7.20 a.m. the 9th Gurkhas rejoined the 1st who by 7.25 had advanced thirteen hundred yards, taken three trenches, killed about one hundred and fifty Turks, and taken a few prisoners and three machine guns. The bombers and machine-gun section are mentioned as having done particularly well. So far, Lieutenant Sorby had been badly wounded leading " C" Company, Captain Baldwin had been shot through the thigh, but had continued leading and was one of the first to enter the first trench. 2nd Lieutenant Keatinge had been slightly wounded early in the attack. The losses had not been heavy up to this point."

2nd Lt. Keatinge was also awarded the Military Cross for this action.

Montagu Chevenix Baldwin was born in Camberley, Surrey on 2 Mar 1884, the son of Major Frederick Chevenix Baldwin, Connaught Rangers, and Rosalind Baldwin of Camberley, Surrey, and the husband of Field Marshall Claude Auchinleck's sister, Katherine Ruth Leighton Auchinleck.

Baldwin served with the Indian Army from 10 Oct 1903, joining the 1/1st King George's Own Gurkha Rifles and serving with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force from 1916. Buy the WWI medals of Baldwin's brother, Hugh Laurents Chenevix Baldwin, 58th Vaughan's Rifles.

Buy the WWI medals of Baldwin's wife and sister of Field Marshall Claude Auchinleck, Red Cross nurse Katherine Auchinleck.