{"id":6376,"date":"2025-03-31T10:43:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T09:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6376"},"modified":"2025-03-31T10:43:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T09:43:02","slug":"baker-g-dvr-83665-royal-field-artillery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/baker-g-dvr-83665-royal-field-artillery\/","title":{"rendered":"Baker G Dvr 83665 Royal Field Artillery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKER, GEORGE, Driver, No. 83665, 50th Battery, 34th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, only 8. of George Baker, of 79, Aston Lane, Perry Barr, Birmingham. by his wife, Lavinia Jane, dan. of George Peters, of Birmingham, Jeweller: b. Birmingham, co. Warwick, 3 Oct. 1890; educ. George Dixon&#8217;s Secondary School there (Scholar), and Birmingham School of Art (Scholar): was a Confidential Clerk at the Hamstead Colliery; enlisted in the R.F.A. 25 April, 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 23 June, 1917, and was killed in action at Bachant 7 Nov. 1918. Buried behind the lines. His Commanding Officer wrote: &#8220;His loss is very deeply felt in the battery by both officers and men. Your son died gallantly doing his duty, under most trying conditions.&#8221; Unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAKER, GEORGE, Driver, No. 83665, 50th Battery, 34th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, only 8. of George Baker, of 79, Aston Lane, Perry Barr, Birmingham. by his wife, Lavinia Jane, dan. of George Peters, of Birmingham, Jeweller: b. Birmingham, co. Warwick, 3 Oct. 1890; educ. George Dixon&#8217;s Secondary School there (Scholar), and Birmingham School of Art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-field-artillery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6377,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions\/6377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}