BAKER, Frank
| Service Numbers: | 1885, 1886 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 June 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 11th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Blackheath, Birmingham, Staffordshire, England, 29 October 1892 |
| Home Town: | Wallsend, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Adamstown, New South Wales, Australia, 2 August 1941, aged 48 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW GENERAL-30.13. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Jun 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1885, 18th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 9 Aug 1915: | Involvement Private, 1886, 18th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Aug 1915: | Embarked Private, 1886, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Runic, Sydney | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 4th Divisional Ammunition Column | |
| 23 Dec 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 1885, 11th Field Artillery Brigade , 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
81 years ago today, on the Monday afternoon of the 4th August 1941, Gunner Frank Baker, 11th Australian Field Artillery Brigade (Reg No-1885), miner from Wallsend, New South Wales and 103 Lockyer Street, Adamstown, N.S.W. (1938), father of two? (Joan and Ken Baker), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 48. GENERAL-30.13.
Born at Blackheath, Birmingham, Staffordshire, England on the 29th October 1892 to Thomas and Emily Baker of 7 Barrs Road, Bradley Heath Staffs, England; husband of Ruby May C Baker nee Baldock (married 1922, Merewether, N.S.W., died 1937, sleeping here), Frank enlisted June 1915 with the 18th Battalion at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 10.10.1915 (lumbago), 7.5.1919 (orchitis).
Wounded in action - 24.4.1918 (GSW left hand).
Frank returned home October 1919, being discharged on the 23rd December 1919.
Nothing located on Trove regarding enlistment, wounding, returning home, etc.
Mr. Baker’s name has been inscribed on the Wallsend Soldiers' Memorial (photos, unveiled on the 24th May 1919, 332 names originally inscribed, 371 names now inscribed, 75 Fallen) and the Wallsend Municipal & District Roll of Honor.
I have placed poppies at Frank’s gravesite plaque in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
Lest We Forget.
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