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Five: Staff Serjeant Instructor C. Baines, Indian Defence Force, late Royal Lancaster Regiment
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (5669 Corl., R. Lanc. Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (5669 Serjt., Rl. Lanc. Regt.); British War Medal 1914-20 (5669 Sjt., R. Lanc. R.); Defence Medal, unnamed; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (S/Serjt. Instr., 10th Naini Tal Coy. I.D.F.) edge bruising, contact marks, fine and better (5) £140-180
This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Royal Lancaster Regiment.
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Charles Henry Samuel Baines was born in 1880, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Baines, of 382 Great Cheetham Street, Broughton, Salford. He enlisted into the Royal Lancaster Regiment on 12 February 1898 and sailed with the 2nd Battalion to South Africa in December 1899. Present at the operations in the relief of Ladysmith and in the Transvaal where the battalion fought a fierce action against the Boers at Lancaster Hill, Vryheid, 11 December 1900. Returning to England with the battalion in 1903, he was conspicuous in several shooting competitions. Posted to India in November 1912, he was appointed Permanent Staff Instructor to the Naini Tal Company, Indian Defence Force in 1913. In 1919 he was appointed Regimental Sergeant-Major of the Calcutta Scottish, I.D.F. Discharged to a pension in 1921. During the Second World War he was an In-Pensioner at Chelsea Royal Hospital. He died in Chelsea on 30 December 1961.
With copied research. A tankard for shooting bearing his name among other winners, is in the collection in the Regimental Museum in Lancaster.
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