Charles William BAKER

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BAKER, Charles William

Service Number:	4433
Enlisted:	17 July 1915, Melbourne, Vic.
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	14th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, 1897
Home Town:	Warrnambool, Warrnambool, Victoria
Schooling:	State School Victoria
Occupation:	Hairdresser
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 8 August 1916
Cemetery:	Serre Road Cemetery No.2 Beaumont Hamel, France Plot III, Row D, Grave No. 3
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Warrnambool Soldiers' Memorial

World War 1 Service

17 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4433, 14th Infantry Battalion, Melbourne, Vic.
18 Feb 1916:	Involvement Private, 4433, 14th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: ''
18 Feb 1916:	Embarked Private, 4433, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Melbourne

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Walter and Mary Ann Baker.

Mr. George Baker, of Lava-street, Warrnambool has received a telegram from the Defence Department to the effect that his brother, Private C. W. Baker, has been reported missing since 6th August. Private Baker left Australia in February last, with the reinforcements to the 14th Battalion.

In a letter received recently from the Red Cross Society by Mr. G. A. Baker, Lava-street, Warrnambool, it was stated that Private C. W. Baker, with four others, was cut off in the trenches in front of Mouquet Farm, on 7th August, 1916, during a counter-attack by the Germans. The five were wounded and could not be rescued. A Germam officer was going to take them prisoner, but a second officer came up and shot them with his revolver as they were resting in the trenches. Four of them, including the subject of this notice, were killed on the spot; the fifth, Private I. C. A. Findlow, escaped owing to the bullet striking a testament he carried in his pocket.

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