Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (Paul Robert Elmhirst Baxter) good very fine £80-£100

Paul Robert Elmhirst Baxter was born in Nice, France, on 19 May 1881 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 6th (Militia) Battalion, Manchester Regiment, on 17 January 1902, serving with them in South Africa during the Boer War. He served as a Lieutenant with the 1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment during the Great War in Mesopotamia, and was killed in action at Kut on 8 March 1916, during the Battalion’s action at Es Sinn, in which action Private Stringer, of the same Battalion, was awarded the Victoria Cross. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.

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