Service No: 44
Age: 38
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers, 54th Field Coy.
Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Son of Frederick William and Elizabeth Naunton Baker, of Lowestoft, Suffolk; husband of Maud Elizabeth Baker, of The Ridge Cottage, Crawley Hill, Camberley, Surrey. 19 years' service.
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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.
BAKER, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Sergeant, No. 44, 54th Field Company, R.E., son of the late Frederick William Baker, of 118, Denmark Road, and Commercial Road, Lowestoft, General and Shipsmith, by his wife (--), daughter of (--) Naunton; b. Lowestoft, 8 Dec. 1876; educated there; was apprenticed to his father, and was an old Volunteer in the Lowestoft Rifles; joined the R.E. as a sapper at Chatham, 2 March, 1895; served in the Bermudas, Canada, at Aldershot and in South Africa, and with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action near Fleurbaix, 7 Jan. 1915, being shot by a sniper. He was buried at Fleurbaix on the Bois Grenier Road. Sergeant Baker held the Long Service and Good Conduct medal with the crossed guns, and Lieutenant-Col. D. S. MacInnes, D.S.O., wrote: "Sergeant W. Baker, when I knew him, was section Sergeant of the 54th Field Company, R.E. He was particularly capable and resourceful, and inspired great confidence in the men of his section. His bravery when making wire entanglements in the face of the enemy, and in other dangerous work was beyond all praise." He married at Broadstairs, 26 Nov. 1904, Maud Elizabeth (The Ridge Cottage, Crawley Hill, Camberley), daughter of William Fisher, Dockyard Pensioner, and had issue three sons and two daughters: Frederick William Naunton, b. 25 Nov. 1906; Montague Reginald, b. 1 Aug. 1908; Robert Naunton, b. 15 July, 1913; Elsie Maud, b. 29 Sept. 1905; and Irene Naunton, b. 23 Oct. 1910.
Age: 38
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers, 54th Field Coy.
Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Son of Frederick William and Elizabeth Naunton Baker, of Lowestoft, Suffolk; husband of Maud Elizabeth Baker, of The Ridge Cottage, Crawley Hill, Camberley, Surrey. 19 years' service.
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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.
BAKER, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Sergeant, No. 44, 54th Field Company, R.E., son of the late Frederick William Baker, of 118, Denmark Road, and Commercial Road, Lowestoft, General and Shipsmith, by his wife (--), daughter of (--) Naunton; b. Lowestoft, 8 Dec. 1876; educated there; was apprenticed to his father, and was an old Volunteer in the Lowestoft Rifles; joined the R.E. as a sapper at Chatham, 2 March, 1895; served in the Bermudas, Canada, at Aldershot and in South Africa, and with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action near Fleurbaix, 7 Jan. 1915, being shot by a sniper. He was buried at Fleurbaix on the Bois Grenier Road. Sergeant Baker held the Long Service and Good Conduct medal with the crossed guns, and Lieutenant-Col. D. S. MacInnes, D.S.O., wrote: "Sergeant W. Baker, when I knew him, was section Sergeant of the 54th Field Company, R.E. He was particularly capable and resourceful, and inspired great confidence in the men of his section. His bravery when making wire entanglements in the face of the enemy, and in other dangerous work was beyond all praise." He married at Broadstairs, 26 Nov. 1904, Maud Elizabeth (The Ridge Cottage, Crawley Hill, Camberley), daughter of William Fisher, Dockyard Pensioner, and had issue three sons and two daughters: Frederick William Naunton, b. 25 Nov. 1906; Montague Reginald, b. 1 Aug. 1908; Robert Naunton, b. 15 July, 1913; Elsie Maud, b. 29 Sept. 1905; and Irene Naunton, b. 23 Oct. 1910.
Service No: 44
Age: 38
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers, 54th Field Coy.
Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Son of Frederick William and Elizabeth Naunton Baker, of Lowestoft, Suffolk; husband of Maud Elizabeth Baker, of The Ridge Cottage, Crawley Hill, Camberley, Surrey. 19 years' service.
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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.
BAKER, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Sergeant, No. 44, 54th Field Company, R.E., son of the late Frederick William Baker, of 118, Denmark Road, and Commercial Road, Lowestoft, General and Shipsmith, by his wife (--), daughter of (--) Naunton; b. Lowestoft, 8 Dec. 1876; educated there; was apprenticed to his father, and was an old Volunteer in the Lowestoft Rifles; joined the R.E. as a sapper at Chatham, 2 March, 1895; served in the Bermudas, Canada, at Aldershot and in South Africa, and with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action near Fleurbaix, 7 Jan. 1915, being shot by a sniper. He was buried at Fleurbaix on the Bois Grenier Road. Sergeant Baker held the Long Service and Good Conduct medal with the crossed guns, and Lieutenant-Col. D. S. MacInnes, D.S.O., wrote: "Sergeant W. Baker, when I knew him, was section Sergeant of the 54th Field Company, R.E. He was particularly capable and resourceful, and inspired great confidence in the men of his section. His bravery when making wire entanglements in the face of the enemy, and in other dangerous work was beyond all praise." He married at Broadstairs, 26 Nov. 1904, Maud Elizabeth (The Ridge Cottage, Crawley Hill, Camberley), daughter of William Fisher, Dockyard Pensioner, and had issue three sons and two daughters: Frederick William Naunton, b. 25 Nov. 1906; Montague Reginald, b. 1 Aug. 1908; Robert Naunton, b. 15 July, 1913; Elsie Maud, b. 29 Sept. 1905; and Irene Naunton, b. 23 Oct. 1910.
Age: 38
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers, 54th Field Coy.
Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Son of Frederick William and Elizabeth Naunton Baker, of Lowestoft, Suffolk; husband of Maud Elizabeth Baker, of The Ridge Cottage, Crawley Hill, Camberley, Surrey. 19 years' service.
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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.
BAKER, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Sergeant, No. 44, 54th Field Company, R.E., son of the late Frederick William Baker, of 118, Denmark Road, and Commercial Road, Lowestoft, General and Shipsmith, by his wife (--), daughter of (--) Naunton; b. Lowestoft, 8 Dec. 1876; educated there; was apprenticed to his father, and was an old Volunteer in the Lowestoft Rifles; joined the R.E. as a sapper at Chatham, 2 March, 1895; served in the Bermudas, Canada, at Aldershot and in South Africa, and with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action near Fleurbaix, 7 Jan. 1915, being shot by a sniper. He was buried at Fleurbaix on the Bois Grenier Road. Sergeant Baker held the Long Service and Good Conduct medal with the crossed guns, and Lieutenant-Col. D. S. MacInnes, D.S.O., wrote: "Sergeant W. Baker, when I knew him, was section Sergeant of the 54th Field Company, R.E. He was particularly capable and resourceful, and inspired great confidence in the men of his section. His bravery when making wire entanglements in the face of the enemy, and in other dangerous work was beyond all praise." He married at Broadstairs, 26 Nov. 1904, Maud Elizabeth (The Ridge Cottage, Crawley Hill, Camberley), daughter of William Fisher, Dockyard Pensioner, and had issue three sons and two daughters: Frederick William Naunton, b. 25 Nov. 1906; Montague Reginald, b. 1 Aug. 1908; Robert Naunton, b. 15 July, 1913; Elsie Maud, b. 29 Sept. 1905; and Irene Naunton, b. 23 Oct. 1910.
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