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Ralph Murray Baker

In memory of:

W.O.II W.Op./Air Gnr. Ralph Murray Baker

March 19, 1945

Military Service


Service Number:

R/198093

Age:

22

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

405 Sqdn.

Additional Information


Son of Thomas Arthur and Mary Ann Baker, of Toronto, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 493 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

13. F. 8.

Location:

Rheinberg is 24 kilometres north of Krefeld and 13 kilometres south of Wesel, in the locality of Kamp Lintfort, Nordrhein-Westfal. The cemetery is 3 kilometres south of the centre of the town of Rheinberg on the road to Kamp Lintfort. From the motorway 57, turn off at Rheinberg and at the T junction follow the 510 in the direction Kamp Lintfort. The cemetery is a short way along this road on the right.

The site of Rheinberg War Cemetery was chosen in April 1946 by the Army Graves Service for the assembly of Commonwealth graves recovered from numerous German cemeteries in the area. The majority of those now buried in the cemetery were airmen, whose graves were brought in from Dusseldorf, Krefeld, Munchen-Gladbach, Essen, Aachen and Dortmund; 450 graves were from Cologne alone. The men of the other fighting services buried here mostly lost their lives during the battle of the Rhineland, or in the advance from the Rhine to the Elbe.

There are now 3,326 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated at Rheinberg War Cemetery. 156 of the burials are unidentified. There are also nine war graves of other nationalities, most of them Polish.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Newspaper Clipping– Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Memorial– WO II WOp/Air Gunner Ralph Murray Baker is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– WO II WOp/Air Gunner Ralph Murray Baker is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Photo of RALPH MURRAY BAKER– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of RALPH MURRAY BAKER– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Star April 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Star April 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram March 1951. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of RALPH MURRAY BAKER– From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of RALPH MURRAY BAKER– From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Group Photo– Crew of Lancaster PB451.
On 19 March 1945, PB451 was airborne 0132 from Gransden Lodge O/P Witten, Germany, from which it failed to return.  The crew are buried in Rheinberg War Cemetery. They are: F/O (P) G.E.Peaker age 33 from Saskatoon;  Sgt A.Kirkcaldy, F/O (N) E.Hayes age 21 Vancouver;  F/O (BA) R.S.Butterworth age 26 Ottawa;  Sgt R.P.Smith RAF; WO2 (WAG) R.M.Baker age 22 Toronto; F/S (AG) E.F.Perrault age 20 Fort Francis;  F/S (AG) J.P.H.Adam age 21 Tecumseh, Ont. 
(F/O Butterworth was from Richville, New York.)
  • Document– From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Biography– From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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