Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of John Russell Baines a Carpenter Joiner and Builder, born 1863 in Leadenham, Lincolnshire and his wife Florence Louisa, born 1876 in Deeping Fen, Lincolnshire. Cyril Johnson was born in 1896 in Oakham, Rutland, his siblings were Rupert John, born 1898, Edward Gordon, born 1902, Phyllis Mary, born 1907, George Russell, born 1908, William Frederick, born 1909 and Charles William, born 1909, all his siblings were born in Oakham, Rutland. In April 1911 the family home was at Sydney Villa, South Street, Oakham, Rutland. Before the war he was working with his father in the building trade. He enlisted in the first month of the war and embarked for Gallipoli in June 1915, and he was killed by a shrapnel fragment at Jephson’s Post, Gallipoli being buried at Kiretch Tepe Ridge. Other sources give his date of death as the 9th August 1915.