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Citation(s);
Military service
Age:
30
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
5th Bn.
Enlistment:
Kindersley, Saskatchewan
Death:
February 17, 1919
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XLV. B. 15.
Additional information
Husband of W. A. Baker, of Medland Crescent, Ontario.
Additional citations
London Gazette dated 18 July 1917.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant William Alton Baker
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Grave marker
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Babb to Barjarow. Microform Sequence 5; Volume Number 31829_B016715. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 149. Page 555 of 1072. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram February 1919. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 529 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
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