Claude Ernest BAKER

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Service Number:	VX17976
Enlisted:	28 May 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/14th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Korumburra, Victoria, Australia., 27 March 1916
Home Town:	Windsor, Stonnington, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Scrub typhus, Malaria, New Guinea, 4 December 1943, aged 27 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery (CWGC) Grave Reference Location ~ Plot C. Row A. Grave 14. Personal Inscription ~ "HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE".
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Korumburra War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, VX17976
28 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX17976, 2nd/14th Infantry Battalion

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