A granite monument was built for Kenneth in Pahiatua and stands on the main street.
The inscription reads A tribute to the memory of Kenneth Anderson Bayne, a returning wounded soldier, who nobly sacrificed his life in an attempt to save from drowning, a child who fell overboard from the S.S. Ruahine, on the 25th November 1916. It was dusk. The child, aged about two years, had crawled through a porthole and fallen into the sea. Without the slightest hesitation, Bayne, although one arm was disabled, and regardless of the sharks, plunged overboard after the infant. Neither Bayne nor the child was ever seen again. The deed was characteristic of the lad. He died as he had lived a stranger to selfishness.
WW1 Mil. Service # 11/774A - Trooper - Wellington Mounted Rifles, N.Z.E.F.
The inscription reads A tribute to the memory of Kenneth Anderson Bayne, a returning wounded soldier, who nobly sacrificed his life in an attempt to save from drowning, a child who fell overboard from the S.S. Ruahine, on the 25th November 1916. It was dusk. The child, aged about two years, had crawled through a porthole and fallen into the sea. Without the slightest hesitation, Bayne, although one arm was disabled, and regardless of the sharks, plunged overboard after the infant. Neither Bayne nor the child was ever seen again. The deed was characteristic of the lad. He died as he had lived a stranger to selfishness.
WW1 Mil. Service # 11/774A - Trooper - Wellington Mounted Rifles, N.Z.E.F.
A granite monument was built for Kenneth in Pahiatua and stands on the main street.
The inscription reads A tribute to the memory of Kenneth Anderson Bayne, a returning wounded soldier, who nobly sacrificed his life in an attempt to save from drowning, a child who fell overboard from the S.S. Ruahine, on the 25th November 1916. It was dusk. The child, aged about two years, had crawled through a porthole and fallen into the sea. Without the slightest hesitation, Bayne, although one arm was disabled, and regardless of the sharks, plunged overboard after the infant. Neither Bayne nor the child was ever seen again. The deed was characteristic of the lad. He died as he had lived a stranger to selfishness.
WW1 Mil. Service # 11/774A - Trooper - Wellington Mounted Rifles, N.Z.E.F.
The inscription reads A tribute to the memory of Kenneth Anderson Bayne, a returning wounded soldier, who nobly sacrificed his life in an attempt to save from drowning, a child who fell overboard from the S.S. Ruahine, on the 25th November 1916. It was dusk. The child, aged about two years, had crawled through a porthole and fallen into the sea. Without the slightest hesitation, Bayne, although one arm was disabled, and regardless of the sharks, plunged overboard after the infant. Neither Bayne nor the child was ever seen again. The deed was characteristic of the lad. He died as he had lived a stranger to selfishness.
WW1 Mil. Service # 11/774A - Trooper - Wellington Mounted Rifles, N.Z.E.F.
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