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Military service
Service number:
696269
Age:
31
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
31st Bn.
Birth:
November 16, 1885
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
February 14, 1916
Medicine Hat, Alberta
Death:
November 6, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Robert Henry and Mercy Aylesworth Baker, of Napanee, Ontario.
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Newspaper Clipping
Lt. Henry Aylesworth Baker's photo is identified as (4) in this newspaper article. The article includes details which conflict with Lt. Baker's actual attestation. According to his attestation, Henry Aylesworth Baker was born in Toronto, Ontario and was living in Calgary at the time of his enlistment. He enlisted on February 14th, 1916 in Medicine Hat. The attestation was stamped for the 175th Battalion. Source: National Archives of Canada. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant Henry Aylesworth Baker
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Lieutenant Henry Aylesworth Baker
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Lieutenant Henry Aylesworth Baker
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 195 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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