| Captain Godfrey Baldwin of the 19th Regiment of Foot (the Green Howards) sitting for a photograph taken on 21 August, 1873. Baldwin was born on 17 April, 1836 in Cork, Ireland, and was listed as a Gentleman Cadet at Sandhurst in 1851 Commissioned as Ensign in the 19th Regiment of Foot on 6 June, 1854. Promotions continued: Lieutenant on 8 December, 1854 Captain on 25 August, 1862 Major on 8 October, 1876 Lt. Col. on 24 November 1877 Lieutenant Baldwin shipped out to India aboard the Alnwick Castle on 23 July, 1857. He later served with the Hazara Field Force in the Black Mountain Expedition on the Northwest Frontier in 1868. In this photograph he wears the 1854 India General Service Medal with clasp for that campaign. According to information from the Green Howards Regimental Museum, Baldwin was not with his regiment when it took part in the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Baldwin's family seems to have been of the landed gentry class in Ireland with several references to the family holdings in that country have been found. Baldwin was married to Julia (no surname found) and she traveled with him to India, appearing in group photo of 19th regiment officers and wives. Baldwin died in London in 1892 at the age of 56. In that record his name is given as Godfrey Clement K. Baldwin. Carte de Visite E. W. Proctor - Photographer 90 Edgware Road, London W., England 24 August, 1873 |
