John Tonkin BAKER

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Service Number:	3529
Enlisted:	10 April 1917, Enlisted at Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Trooper
Last Unit:	3rd Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Wokurna, Kadina, South Australia, Australia, 25 September 1899
Home Town:	Kangarilla, Onkaparinga, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Labourer
Died:	Suicide, Snowtown, South Australia, Australia, 19 September 1919, aged 19 years
Cemetery:	Snowtown-Condowie Cemetery, Condowie, Stanley, South Australia Grave identified by the Headstone Project as advised in the Sunday Mail 14 Aug 2022
Memorials:

10 Apr 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3529, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, Enlisted at Adelaide, SA
7 Mar 1918:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3529, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: SS Ormonde embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
30 Jun 1918:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3529, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, Egypt and Palestine - Light Horse and AFC Operations
11 Nov 1918:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3529, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, Egypt and Palestine - Light Horse and AFC Operations
12 Jul 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Trooper, 3529, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, At 4th Military District
Date unknown:	Wounded 3529, 3rd Light Horse Regiment

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Son of William Thomas Baker and Elizabeth Baker nee Tonkin of Kangarilla, SA

Brother of William Clarence Baker and William Ernest Baker

Commenced return to Australia aboard HT Orari on 15 May 1919 at Kantara

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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