Corporal George Farrington Baldwin DCM MM Belgium Crix de Guerre
13830 10th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Born 11th June 1894
Enlisted 10th September 1914
Lived at 13 Blakey Street
Died 21st March 1978
Burnley Express 4th November 1916 - 21st July 1917 - 16th February 1918 - 10th August 1918 - 30th August 1918 - 30th August 1918 - 30th August 1918

Married Eva Bridge in 1919, the sister of his best Friend Albert Bridge 16820 Scottish Rifles who died of wounds 9th August 1916

DCM London Gazette of 25 August 1917.

"For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Under an intense and concentrated bombardment of our trenches, he stood up on the parapet and endeavored to dig out men who had been buried by shellfire. He did not once hesitate, though others were being killed and wounded around him, and his own chance of surviving seemed slight, but worked steadily for twenty minutes until all the wounded had been extricated and removed. But for his heroic conduct at least three of them would have died."
“Near Ypres on the 29 June 1917”.

MM London Gazette of 9 December 1916.

Taking messages under heavy shell and machine gun fire at Martinpuich, Somme, 15 - 22 September 1916”.

Belgium Croix de Guerre London Gazette of 12 July 1918.