BAKER, Ernest Peter
| Service Number: | V74162 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 August 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
| Born: | Bittern, Victoria, Australia, 22 September 1915 |
| Home Town: | Frankston, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Radio Technician |
| Died: | Bairnsdale, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, 14 May 2004, aged 88 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 23 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, V74162, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
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| Date unknown: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, V74162, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Ernest was the eldest of seven children of Thomas Peter Baker (b1882 in Batesford, Victoria) and Gertrude Ethel Wilson (b1895 in Tyabbm Victoria). Thomas - a Farmer - and Gertrude married in 1915 in Hastings, Victoria. Thomas and Gertrude moved to Frankston, Victoria in the early 1920s, where Thomas was a Labourer.
Ernest was a Radio Technician in Frankston, Victoria when he enlisted with the Militia in February 1935. He was a Private (Service No:132160) with 46th Battalion when he was Discharged in January 1937.
In 1940 Ernest was working as a Radio Mechanic and living in Orbost, Victoria when he enlisted with the ACMF (Private; Service No:V74162), and in 1941 he married Dorothy Jean Bilson (b1921 in Drouin, Victoria). Ernest and Dorothy settled in Orbost, Victoria where Ernest was a Radio Mechanic. In the early 1970s they relocated to Bairnsdale, Victoria where Ernest worked as an Electrician. Ernest died in 2004 and Dorothy in 2011.