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.

THE SUFFOLK REGIMENT 12th (Service) Battalion (East Anglian) :

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