Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Captain A. B. Baines, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
1914-15 Star (Lieut., Oxf. & Bucks.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.), Bronze Memorial Plaque (Athelstan Basil Baines) this with envelope and card box of issue, together with cap badge and copy photograph mounted for display in a wood frame, extremely fine (4)

Captain Athelstan Basil Baines, a native of Brighton, was educated at Charterhouse College. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1914 and in September of the same year he joined the Cambridge O.T.C. One month later he received his commission and was promoted Captain in December 1915. He was wounded in September 1916 and returned to the front upon his recovery. He was killed in action, France and Flanders, 3 April 1917. The Battalion War Diary for this date states ‘On the 3rd at 12:30 a.m. Captain A. B. Baines and 2nd Lieut. J. A. Sellar went to the 12th K.R.R.C. to locate a new piquet. They started back but failed to rejoin their companies and were reported missing. Next day a piquet of ‘A’ company recovered their bodies, the Germans apparently having taken everything they posessed, including their equipment.’ He is buried in H.A.C. Cemetery, Ecoust St Mein, France.