Baker W A Gnr 59566 Royal Field Artillery

BAKER, WILLIAM ARTHUR, Gunner, No. 59566, 9th Battery. 41st Brigade, R.F.A., yst. s. of the late Ralph Baker, by his wife, Mary Elizabeth, dau. of the late William Petley; b. Sturry, co. Kent, 11 April, 1889; educ. London; enlisted in Sept. 1909: served for three years in India; on the outbreak of the European War was stationed at Piershill Barracks, Edinburgh; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Aug. 1914, and was killed in action 20 July, 1918. Buried in the British Cemetery, north-west of Albert He m. at Edinburgh, 9 Nov. 1915, Jemima (3. Haw-thorne Bank, Belford Road, Edinburgh), dau. of James Wood; s.p.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

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