BAKER, James Royston
| Service Number: | 879 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 November 1916, Senior Cadets and 34th Infantry |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 9th Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Newtown, New South Wales, Australia, 2 May 1899 |
| Home Town: | Erskineville, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Cabinet maker |
| Died: | 9 June 1963, aged 64 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 2-67. 87. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Nov 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 879, 1st ANZAC Cyclist Battalion, Senior Cadets and 34th Infantry | |
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| 11 May 1917: | Involvement Private, 879, 1st ANZAC Cyclist Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: '' | |
| 11 May 1917: | Embarked Private, 879, 1st ANZAC Cyclist Battalion, HMAT Shropshire, Melbourne | |
| 1 Jun 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 879, 9th Field Company Engineers, 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.
61 years ago today, on the 11th June 1963, Sapper James Royston Baker, 9th Australian Field Company Australian Engineers (Reg No-879), cabinet maker from 82 Charles Street, Erskineville, New South Wales and Hamilton?, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 64. CATHOLIC 2-67. 87.
Born at Newtown, New South Wales on the 2nd May 1899 to William George and Caroline Ann Baker nee Morgan; husband of Bessie Baker nee Sheffer, married 1937, Kogarah, N.S.W., died 30.8.2000, age 84, 37 years a widow, sleeping here, James enlisted on the 2nd November 1916 with the 1st Anzac Cyclist Battalion at Sydney, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on board HMAT A9 Shropshire on the 11th May 1917.
Admitted to hospital 6.12.1917 (not stated), 27.5.1918 (trench feet), 6.11.1918 (influenza).
Invalided to England 16.6.1918.
Commenced return to Australia 9.3.1919.
James arrived home on the 23rd April 1919, being discharged on the 1st June 1919.
Nothing located on Trove regarding enlistment, returning home, etc.
Mr. Baker’s name has been inscribed on the Newtown Superior Public School Honour Roll WW1 and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at James’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Officially commemorated – https://connect.dva.gov.au/commemsoawg/commemoration/viewCommemoration.html?commemorationId=NTYzODgx.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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