Cecil Edmond BAKER

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Service Number:	N176801
Enlisted:	16 February 1942, Kingsford, New South Wales
Last Rank:	Bombardier
Last Unit:	51 Mobile Search Light Battery RAA
Born:	Randwick, New South Wales, Australia, 27 February 1910
Home Town:	Gladesville, Hunters Hill, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Wool Classer / Traveller
Died:	Toxaemia (2nd degree burns to body), 128th Australian General Hospital, Bootless Bay, New Guinea, 2 July 1944, aged 34 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea (CWGC) Burial Reference ~ Section B, Plot 3, Row C, Grave 21. Personal Inscription ~ "SO DEARLY LOVED SO SADLY MISSED. "UNTIL THE DAY BREAKS"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Bombardier, N176801
16 Feb 1942:	Enlisted Kingsford, New South Wales
16 Feb 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Bombardier, N176801
20 Sep 1943:	Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Bombardier, 51 Mobile Search Light Battery RAA

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51 Mobile Searchlight Battery

Rank - Bombardier

27 April 1942 - Taken on strength at Sydney

Son of Cecil Edmond and Florence Emmie Baker; husband of Isabella Mabel Baker, of Burwood, New South Wales.