6810 Lance-Corporal Harold Joscelin Baish, 1st Wiltshire Regiment
Arrived overseas: 14 August 1914. Connection: Army Challenge Cup photo, 1922. By the time that Harold Joscelin Baish posed for this Army Challenge Cup photo, he was a company sergeant major with 18 years' service under his belt. Born on the 28th January 1890 he had enlisted with the Wiltshire Regiment in 1904, and he arrived overseas with the 1st Battalion on the 14th August 1914. His service record almoste certainly still survives and, at the time of writing is either being accessioned by The National Archives, ior is being digitised by Ancestry prior to publication. Harold Baish died in 1967, his death registered at Devizes, Wiltshire in the 3rd quarter of that year. He was 77 years old.