Arthur Frederick Cecil Talbot Baines
Educated Cheltenham College. Partner, Messrs. Eden, Baines & Kennaway.
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Arthur Frederick Cecil Talbot Baines was born on 9 April 1879 at Brighton, Sussex, the son of Lazarus Threfall JP and Ellen Mary Baines (nee Werge).
The family moved to Nottinghamshire soon after his birth and was recorded on the 1881 census at Bawtry Hall, Bawtry.
Arthur was educated at Cheltenham College and was a partner in the firm of Messrs. Eden, Baines & Kennaway. He married Kathleen Lister-Kaye at Worksop on 19 June 1907 and they had two daughters.
He joined the Army Service Corps as a Captain in October 1914. Promoted Major in 1916, he was employed as a senior supply officer.
Baines was onboard the S.S. Arcadian, transporting troops from Salonika to Alexandria, when, on 15 April 1917, the ship was hit by a torpedo from an enemy submarine. The troops and crew had just completed a boat-drill and so were in a good position to evacuate the ship. The Arcadian capsized and sank in just six minutes but 1,058 of the 1,335 passengers and ship's company were rescued although wreckage which came to the surface caused casualties among those who survived the sinking.
Major Baines died on 26 April 1917 from injuries he had sustained during the evacuation of the ship. He was buried in the Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery, Greece.
CWGC Additional information: Son of the late L. T. Baines, of Bawtry Hall, Yorkshire, and of Mrs. Baines, of Westbrook, Horsham, Sussex; husband of Kathleen Baines, late of Higham, Derbyshire.
CWGC headstone, personal inscription: 'Peace, Peace! He is not dead he hath awakened from the dream of life' The quotation is from 'Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats', by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Worksop Guardian, 11 May 1917: 'Major Cecil Talbot Baines. Major Cecil Talbot Baines, A.S.C,. youngest son of the late Mr L T Baines of Bawtry Hall, is reported to have died of wounds on April 26th. He married in June 1907, Kathleen, daughter of Mr C W Lister-Kaye of Scofton, Worksop and leaves a widow and two daughters. Born in 1879 he was educated at Cheltenham College.'
Arthur Frederick Cecil Talbot Bains
The stained glass memorial window depicting St Edmund, St George and St Martin commemorating Cecil Talbot Baines in St Nichols Church,Bawtry.
Photo courtesy of Peter Gillings
Arthur Ftrederick Cecil Talbot Baines
St Nicholas Church, Bawtry, memorial window. Photograph Peter Gillings.