VICTOR STANLEY BAKER

Image from the Chronicle And Mercury – 1918
Born:1894, Ipswich.
Died: 24th March 1918; age 24; Died of Wounds.
Residence: 30, Rope Walk, Ipswich.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 20888
Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 12th Battalion.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
The body was discovered in 1923 in a grave without a cross at Ecourt St. Quentin German Cemetery, by local labour under the supervision of Mr. C. Rutter. The body was exhumed and identified by fragments of a Grey Flannel Shirt, the G.B. List and Plan, and reburied at Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery.
Grave Reference:
XI.F.4.
Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery,
Hallcourt,
Pas de Calais,
France.
CENSUS
1901 16, Surbiton Road, Ipswich.
Victor was 7 years old and living with his widowed father & sisters.
Frederick William Baker, 40, a Bricklayer, born Woolpit, Suffolk.
Ida Olive Victorine Baker, 13, born Ipswich.
Ethel Louisa Elizabeth Baker, 10, born Ipswich.
Kate Laura Anna Baker, 8, born Ipswich.
1 housekeeper.
1911 30, Rope Walk, Ipswich.
Victor was 17 years old, an Apprentice French Polisher. He was living with his father & stepmother & her son.
William, 51, a Bricklayer.
Emily Baker (nee Mudd (1st marriage Orr)), 48, born Ipswich.
Archibald Robert Charles Orr, 14, a Foundry Labourer – Welding, born Ipswich.
Victor’s mother was Annie Baker (nee Dennant), born 1855, Ipswich – died 1894, Ipswich.
Soldiers’ Effects to Frederick W. Baker – father.
Victor is also commemorated at St. Mary le Elms Church, Ipswich.
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