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Lieutenant Graham Mcnaughton Baker

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Military service

Age: 25
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Navy
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
Division: H.M.S. Hornet
Birth: April 2, 1916 Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment: March 18, 1940 Toronto, Ontario
Death: March 28, 1942 St. Nazaire, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 8.
Additional information
Son of Edwin George and Gina McNaughton Baker, of Toronto, Ontario.

Baker Hill, Nunavet was named after Graham Baker.

Additional citations

Mentioned in dispatches (May 21, 1942)<P>
St. Nazaire raid (March 28, 1942)<P>
For great bravery and unshaken devotion to duty in control of a gun in his motor launch, and afterward in trying to take a rope onto a jetty heavily enfiladed by intense enemy fire (during an attack on St. Nazaire)."

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 56 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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