Gordon Wilberforce Baxter

A Engineman with H.M.S. Halcyon II, Gordon died on 18th of February 1919 at the age of 25. 

Gordon was born at Barnby on 9 April 1893, a son of Walter and Martha Baxter. He was baptised at Saint John the Baptist Church, Barnby, on 18 August 1895. In 1901 his family lived at Railway Road, Barnby Green, and this was still their address in 1911 when Gordon 'worked at home' (possibly with his father who was a market gardener?). By 1915 they lived at Nunns Nest, Barnby. 

Gordon joined the Royal Naval Reserve on 13 November 1915. From 11 March 1916 he served on the trawler John Lewis. 

Gordon died, from pneumonia, at Gunton Cottage Hospital. 

Gordon's nephew Christopher died in 1940 in the loss of the trawler Newhaven.