South African War Veteran 1899-1902 ..SA N/N

WWI Service Number: 9/534

Unit: NZEF NZ Mounted Rifles Brigade, Otago Mounted Rifles, (Commanding)

Next Of Kin: Mrs Bauchop (wife), care of D. Hines, Chatham, Kent, England..

Campaigns: 1914-1916 Egypt, 1915-1916 Gallipoli

Lieutenant Colonel Bauchop Died of wounds, Tuesday 10 August 1915

on H.M.H.S. "Delta," he was buried at sea..

He was the Son of Robert and Maria Bauchop, of Port Chalmers, Dunedin; husband of Mary J. E. Bauchop, of Havelock North, Hawke's Bay.

Medals and Awards: Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (CMG), Queen's South Africa Medal, King's South Africa Medal,

1914-1915 Star, British War Medal (1914-1920), Victory Medal with oak leaf

Mentioned in Despatches: (MID)

Mid. 1915. London Gazette, 5 November 1915, p11003, WA 22/5/10:"Gallipoli April-Aug 1915. Commanding Otago Mounted Rifles Regiment. Has shown considerable resource in perfecting the defence of that portion of the line immediately under his command. He was wounded on 4th July but returned the next day to duty and has remained in command ever since." Source: AWMM Online Cenotaph...

Suggested edit: For Bio: By Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)

Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.

BAUCHOP, ARTHUR, C.M.G., Lieutenant-Col., Otago Mounted Rifles, N.Z. Expeditionary Force, 3rd son of the late Robert Bauchop, of Port Chalmers, New Zealand, by his wife, Maria, daughter of Peter Stewart; b. Port Chalmers, N.Z., 27 Feb. 1871; educated there and Otago Boys School, Dunedin; entered the Volunteer Garrison Artillery at Dunedin in 1898, and served through the South African War with the 4th New Zealand Contingent 1900-2, being promoted Captain 1900, Major 1901 and Lieutenant-Col. 5 Sept. 1904. He first distinguished himself in the action at Ottoshoop, and was three times mentioned in despatches [London Gazette, 16 April, 1901, 20 Aug. 1901 and 25 April, 1902]; once, when a Major, for good service at the capture of a laager at Fanny Home, by Col. Bing. He held the Queen's medal with four clasps and the King's with two, and was awarded the C.M.G. for his services. He remained in South Africa for some time after the conclusion of the war and then returned to New Zealand, where he commanded in succession the Canterbury (1904), Wellington (1907) and Otago (1912) Military Districts. On the outbreak of the European War he was appointed to command the Otago Mounted Rifles with the N.Z. Expeditionary Force. Lieut-Col. Bauchop was wounded early in July, 1915, but had returned to duty, and was mortally wounded on Bauchop's Hill during the great advance in Gallipoli, 7 Aug. 1915, and died on board H.M.S. Delta, 10 Aug. following. He was buried at sea. Lieutenant-Col. Bauchop was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton's despatch of 22 Sept. 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He was a keen and very efficient officer, and most popular with his men. As a young man he was a prominent athlete, and held several long-distance records. He married at Waikana, New Zealand, 12 Dec. 1912, Mary Jean, daughter of Henry Richardson Elder, of Waikana, N.Z., and had a daughter, Elizabeth Elder, b. 19 May, 1915.