Glen George BAKER

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BAKER, Glen George

Service Number:	QX53195
Enlisted:	13 February 1943
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	4 Advanced Ordnance Depot
Born:	Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 9 August 1915
Home Town:	New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Queensland State School System, Australia
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Scrub typhus, 2nd / 11th Australian General Hospital,New Guinea, 15 December 1943, aged 28 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea (CWGC) Burial Reference ~ Section B, Plot 6, Row D, Grave 1. Personal Inscription ~ "BELOVED HUSBAND OF MAVIS (NEE BARKLEY), NEW FARM, BRISBANE".
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Townsville Grammar School Roll of Honour, Townsville Grammar School War Service Honour Roll

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Lieutenant, QX53195
23 Jan 1942:	Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, 4 Advanced Ordnance Depot
13 Feb 1943:	Enlisted
30 Apr 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, QX53195
15 Dec 1943:	Discharged

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Biography contributed by Stephen Bonald

Glen George Baker was an Australian cricketer.

He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler. Glen played 29 first-class cricket matches, all but one for Queensland, between 1936 and 1942, scoring 1,531 runs and taking 13 wickets. His highest score was 157 for Queensland against New South Wales in the first match of the 1938–39 Sheffield Shield.

He married Mavis Jean Barkley on 5th April 1941 at the
Ann Street Presbyterian Church, Brisbane.

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