Captain John Henry BARING
2nd (Home Service) Garrison Battalion Royal Irish Regiment attached to 1st Seaforth Highlanders and 2/9th Durham Light Infantry

Date of birth: 3rd December 1885
Date of death: 4th December 1956

Died aged 71
Unknown
John Henry Baring was born at 11 Portman Square, Marylebone in London on the 3rd of December 1885 the younger son of the Hon Francis Henry Baring, a partner of Baring Brothers, and Lady Grace Elizabeth (nee Boyle) Baring of 3 Wilton Crescent, London SW1. He was christened at St Thomas' Church, Portman Square on the 20th of January 1886.

He was educated at Hazelwood School until April 1900. On leaving the school magazine wrote of him: - "Goes to Rugby, where we hope he will be well enough to do himself justice in school work. He will be remembered for his excellent acting in our Xmas play."

He went on to Rugby School where he was in Payne-Smith’s House from May 1900 to April 1904. He went on to Trinity College Oxford in 1904 where he coxed the College rowing crew and won an honours degree in history in 1908.

On leaving university he travelled through Italy. He went to work for the Essex County Educational Office from 1911 to 1913 when he moved to join the Oxfordshire County Educational Office. He completed his MA in 1912.

He was commissioned as a Lieutenant on the General List on the 8th of February 1916 and was attached to the Royal Irish Regiment on the 6th of May 1916.He was later attached to the 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders in Salonica, landing there on the 7th of February 1917. He was then in charge of a Macedonian force engaged in quarrying and road making. He was promoted to Temporary Captain on the 1st of April 1917 and was transferred to the 2nd (Garrison) Battalion Royal Irish Regiment in Dublin where he was appointed as Musketry Officer in June 1917; the battalion changed its name to the 2nd Garrison Guard Battalion on the 18th of April 1918 and was posted to France

He was appointed as a Railway Traffic Officer on the 25th of October 1918 and, during 1919, he spent five months in Turin, Bari and Taranto in Italy before coming home on leave in January 1920 and relinquishing his appointment on the 7th of January 1920. On the 16th of January 1920 he was appointed as a Railway Traffic Officer and was posted to the British Army on the Rhine where he served at Thorn on the Vistula, relinquishing that appointment on the 11th of May 1920. He retired from the army on the 13th of May 1920 retaining the rank of Captain.

By 1921 he was Aide De Camp to Sir Harry Edward Spiller Cordeaux CB CMG, Governor of the Bahamas. In February 1923 he went to Ceylon to take up duties as Private Secretary to the Governor, Sir William Manning, following which he returned in May 1924 via Australia, New Zealand and Spain. He lived at 9 Willbraham Place, Chelsea where he lived on his own means.
Went on to Rugby School

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