Baldock, Horace Walter

Horace Walter Baldock was born on 10 February 1891 in Blean, Kent, United Kingdom, to Walter George and Ann Baldock. He emigrated to Canada in 1913 and was employed as a friction engine driver.

Baldock attested to the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) on 15 January 1915 in Toronto and was enrolled with the Canadian Engineers. He arrived at the engineer training depot in Shorncliffe on 22 April 1915. The training did not agree with him as he was hospitalized 31 May 1915 with lumbago and then organic heart disease (aortic stenosis) aggravated by marching drill. A medical board held on 24 June 1915 at Shorncliffe found him to be medically unfit for further service and he was repatriated to Canada. A second board held 21 July in Quebec found him to be suffering from valvular heart disease aggravated by military service and confirmed the decision to discharge him, and the discharge was made effective 3 July 1915. A pension board held in September awarded him a fifty percent disability pension.

He returned to Toronto at 26 Golden Avenue, and on 24 October 1917 married Edith Bailey, who also immigrated to Canada from England in 1913. In 1921 he is living in Toronto with his wife and two children and working as a shipper. In 1940 he is listed as living in Toronto on Bedford Park Avenue. His military file indicates that he died on 13 May 1940, but no death notice or burial site was found.