Carl John (Jack ) BAKER

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BAKER, Carl John

Service Number:	7744
Enlisted:	18 August 1917, Place of Enlistment, Cairns, Queensland.
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	15th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Innisfail, Queensland, Australia, July 1886
Home Town:	Cairns, Cairns, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Died of wounds, France, 13 August 1918
Cemetery:	Villers-Bretonneux Communal Cemetery Row A, Grave No 3, Villers-Bretonneux Communal Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

18 Aug 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7744, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Place of Enlistment, Cairns, Queensland.
31 Oct 1917:	Involvement Private, 7744, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
31 Oct 1917:	Embarked Private, 7744, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Euripides, Sydney
27 Apr 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 15th Infantry Battalion
13 Aug 1918:	Involvement Private, 7744, 15th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 7744 awm_unit: 15th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-08-13

Carl John Baker.

Carl John Baker, Indigenous Australian, Jack BAKER, 15th Infantry Battalion
Carl John (Jack) BAKER, was born near the town of Innisfail in 1886. Jack married Ada Lyall in 1908 and when he enlisted in August 1917 was living at Edge Hill, Cairns with his two small children.

Jack initially trained at Rifle Range camp, Enoggera, where he was assigned to the 26th Reinforcements for the 15th Infantry Battalion. They travelled by train to Sydney where they embarked on HMAT Euripides, 31 October 1917 bound for England. During the voyage Jack was hospitalised first with pleurisy, and then with mumps.

Jack arrived in France in April 1918 and joined his battalion which was at the time fighting near Villers Bretonneaux. Jack was wounded in action, 13 August 1918 when his company was near Bayonvillers. He was admitted to the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance, with multiple shrapnel wounds but died same day, almost a year to the day he enlisted.

Carl John (Jack) Baker is buried at Villers Bretonneux Communal Cemetery, south west of Corbie, France. Jack’s medals, memorial scroll and plaque where later issued to his wife Ada. SLQ.

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