Lance Corporal Charles Baines

Army Number: 13763

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Ripley, Derbyshire. Son of Joseph and Mary Ellen Baines of Argyll Road, Ripley. He was a general labourer prior to enlisting at Derby. He was killed in action, 9th August 1915, in the attack at Sanctuary Wood, Belgium.

Commemorated Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.

Lance Corporal Charles Baines is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
All Saints Church War Memorial, Ripley, Derbyshire.