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Military service
Age:
38
Rank:
Lieutenant Colonel
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment)
Birth:
November 4, 1877
Sweetsburg, Québec
Enlistment:
Montreal, Québec
Death:
June 2, 1916
Sanctuary Wood, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. G. 1.
Additional information
Son of the Hon. George Barnard Baker, K.C. (member of the Senate of Canada), and Jane Percival Cowan Baker. Lt.-Col. G. H. Baker was a member of the House of Commons, Canada.
Commemorated on the Lieutenant-Colonel George Harold Baker Statue.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Colonel George Harold Baker
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Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Honour Roll
From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926. -
Photo 2 of Statue
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Inscription
Inscriptions carved in stone on the base and sides of the statue. -
Plaque
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Statue
Statue dedicated to Lieutenant Colonel George Harold Baker. Located inside the Canadian Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, Ontario. -
Close up of Statue
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Grave marker
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Babb to Barjarow. Microform Sequence 5; Volume Number 31829_B016715. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 149. Page 457 of 1072. -
Photo of George Harold Baker
Lt. Colonel George Harold Baker, Member of Parliament for Brome -
Photo of George Harold Baker
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of George Harold Baker
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. From the Annie Boyes collection courtesy of the Simcoe County Archives. http://www.simcoe.ca/dpt/arc -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of July 6, 1916. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist58y178uvic#mode/1up. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Temporary grave marker
Lt. Col. GH Baker, Original Grave Marker, POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, Image provided by Padre Phil Miller, Br 25, RCL, Sault Ste. Marie, ON. We Will Remember Them.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel George Harold Baker
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel George Harold Baker
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel George Harold Baker
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel George Harold Baker
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel George Harold Baker
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel George Harold Baker
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel George Harold Baker
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel George Harold Baker
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel George Harold Baker
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 49 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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