This name is on St Mark's War Memorial, Kennington Oval, London SE11
(Richard Arthur Baynes)
Service no London Z/2179
Able Seaman, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Hood Bn. R.N. Div.
Killed in action age 18 on 13 November 1916
Son of Henry Richard and Sarah Maria Baynes, of 54 St Mark's Road, Camberwell, London.
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, France
Service history
Enlisted 31 May 1915
Draft for MEF 25/10/15 (Qualified Machine Gunner), joined Hood Battalion 2/12/15-13/11/16 Discharged Dead
Attestation signatures = R.A. Baynes
Civil Employment: Photography
Born 10/8/1892
Next-of-Kin and home address: Mother, A., 1 Gye Street, Goding Street, Vauxhall, London SW., later of: 91 St. Marks Road., Kennington, London SE5.
ADM/171 = St.V.B. not issued/claimed. Information from the 1901 census
In 1901 Richard Arthur Baynes was a two-year-old living with his parents, Henry Richard Baynes, a 29-year-old plasterer's labourer born in Westminster, and Sarah Maria Baynes, 28, born in St Pancras, London. The other children on the census were:
William Percy Baynes, 7, born in Lambeth
Charles Patrick Baynes, 5, born in Lambeth and remembered at St Mark's Kennington
Richard Arthur Baynes, 2, born in Lambeth and remembered at St Mark's, Kennington
Alice Eleanor Baynes, 5 months, born in Newington
The family lived at that time at 24 Borrett Road, Newington. Borrett Road no longer exists, but there is a Borrett Close just behind Penton Place in Walworth, SE17.