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Military service
Service number:
W/22914
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Women's Army Corps
Birth:
February 15, 1918
New Liskeard, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 18, 1944
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
July 22, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot 7. Row 1.
Additional information
Daughter of Ernest and Florence Baker, of New Liskeard.
Digital gallery of Private Laura Mae Baker
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Circumstances of death registers
Pte Baker had only started to learn to swim. After a baseball game, she and friends decided to bathe. She and another woman got into difficulties. Baker went under the water and drowned. The other woman was rescued. Full Court of Inquiry through Ancestry.ca She was one of eleven children. -
Grave Marker
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Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
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Photo of LAURA MAE BAKER
Thanks to Laura MacKewn for sendnig the photo Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial Plaque
On May 5, 2001, the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, Her Honour Mrs. Hillary Weston unveiled the Canadian Women's Army Corps Memorial Monument in Kitchenor Waterloo. This memorial honours the women who served in the C.W.A.C. between 1941 and 1946. It also lists those who died while on service. -
Memorial
On May 5, 2001, the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, Her Honour Mrs. Hillary Weston unveiled the Canadian Women's Army Corps Memorial Monument in Kitchenor Waterloo. This memorial honours the women who served in the C.W.A.C. between 1941 and 1946. It also lists those who died while on service.
Digital gallery of
Private Laura Mae Baker
Digital gallery of
Private Laura Mae Baker
Digital gallery of
Private Laura Mae Baker
Digital gallery of
Private Laura Mae Baker
Digital gallery of
Private Laura Mae Baker
Digital gallery of
Private Laura Mae Baker
Digital gallery of
Private Laura Mae Baker
Digital gallery of
Private Laura Mae Baker
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 493 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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NEW LISKEARD (HARLEY) CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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