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Charles Kinmond Baxter

Birth
Scotland
Death
unknown
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Buried or Lost at Sea. Specifically: Monday, 23 Oct 1916, Atlantic off SW Ireland, merchant ship
S. S. BAYREAULX, sailing from Cardiff on 20 Oct 1916 for Montreal in ballast, went missing. Presumed sunk by U boat 63.
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BAXTER, 2nd Engr. Charles Kinmond. "S.S. Bayreaulx" (London). Presumed drowned 20 Oct. 1916. Age 47. Son of the late John and Annie Baxter. Born at Dundee. (From Commonwealth War Graves Commission; Author: Peter Singlehurst; Series Title: British Commonwealth War Graves Registers, 1914-1918; Archive Name: London, United Kingdom, as found on Ancestry.com).

Name is entered on the Tower Hill Memorial, Mercantile Marine War Memorial, in London, England.

Monday, 23 October 1916, Atlantic off SW Ireland
S. S. BAYREAULX, 3,009/1895, The Bay SS Co, Cardiff, sailed Cardiff 20 October 1916 for Montreal in ballast, and went missing. U.63 (Otto Schultze) sank an unidentified British ship SW of Ireland, in 50.27N, 11.24W, on this date. Uboat.net reports the victim was almost certainly SS Bayreaulx . (https://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishShips-Locations10AttackedMNDate1916.htm)
BAXTER, 2nd Engr. Charles Kinmond. "S.S. Bayreaulx" (London). Presumed drowned 20 Oct. 1916. Age 47. Son of the late John and Annie Baxter. Born at Dundee. (From Commonwealth War Graves Commission; Author: Peter Singlehurst; Series Title: British Commonwealth War Graves Registers, 1914-1918; Archive Name: London, United Kingdom, as found on Ancestry.com).

Name is entered on the Tower Hill Memorial, Mercantile Marine War Memorial, in London, England.

Monday, 23 October 1916, Atlantic off SW Ireland
S. S. BAYREAULX, 3,009/1895, The Bay SS Co, Cardiff, sailed Cardiff 20 October 1916 for Montreal in ballast, and went missing. U.63 (Otto Schultze) sank an unidentified British ship SW of Ireland, in 50.27N, 11.24W, on this date. Uboat.net reports the victim was almost certainly SS Bayreaulx . (https://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishShips-Locations10AttackedMNDate1916.htm)


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