Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Stephen Baum a Stone Quarry Sett Maker, born 1861 in Mountsorrel, Leicestershire and his wife Annie, born 1865 in Sileby, Leicestershire. Alwyne John, was born in 1896 in Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, he had one sibling, Eveline, born 1889 in Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, also residing with the family was his paternal grand father William Baum, a widower, born 1827 in Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, in March 1901 the family home was at 15, Quorn Road, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, this being situated within the Ecclesiastical Parish of Mountsorrel, St. Peter. In April 1911 Alwyne was employed as a Shoe Hand and was residing in the family home at 15, Quorn Road, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire together with his parents and sibling, Eveline.
The War Diary for today records. KEMMEL. At 10.00pm 2 Platoons of the 7th Battn THE RIFLE BRIGADE occupied 94A replacing 1 platoon C Coy. Total casualties during tour in trenches, killed 4, wounded 10.
On Friday July 2nd 1915 The Melton Mowbray Times & Vale of Belvoir Gazette published the following article under the heading. “THE ROLL OF HONOUR.” – The following casualties in the Leicestershire Regiment were announced by the official Press Bureau on Monday for publication:- Reported June 12th. KILLED. 5th Battalion (T.F.). Bacchus, 1441, Private R. Baum, 2278, Private A. J. Blackham, 2553, Private H.G. WOUNDED. 5th Battalion (T.F.). Ayres, 1750, Pte. F. G. Gilbert, 726, Lance Corpl. H. Price, 1766, Pte. F. Smith, 1256, Lance Corpl. W. Woodcock, 1647, Pte. M.