BORN ST JAMES, HULL 21 Oct 1888. SON OF CHARLES WILFORD BAKER (1867-1926) AND ELIZABETH MARROW (1866-1905), OF 18, BRAEMAR TERRACE, WALCOTT STREET, HULL.SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. HE LIVED WITH HIS GRANDPARENTS, JOSEPH AND MARY ANN MARROW, AT 13, LINWOOD TERRACE, DANSOM LANE, HULL (1891-1911 CENSUS RECORDS). HE WAS A BILL POSTER.
HE MARRIED MARGARET DUFFEY (1888-1928), AT HULL IN 1911. THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN, JOHN MONTO & MARY,
ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 34899, LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT. POSTED TO FRANCE MARCH 1917. TRANSFERRED TO THE 1ST DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S (WILTSHIRE) REGIMENT. DIED OF SHELL WOUNDS, TO THE ABDOMEN, ON 23/10/1918, AGED 30.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, MARGARET, AT 8, WALCOTT STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). WEEKLY WAR PENSION WAS 25/5.
BURIED AT INCHY COMMUNAL CEMETERY, NORD, FRANCE.
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, CHARLES WILFORD BAKER, 13/897, 13TH EYR, DIED AT HULL, OF MIDDLE EAR DISEASE, ON 6TH MARCH 1915, AGED 25
HIS BROTHER THOMAS WAS WOUNDED AND TAKEN PRISONER DURING THE WAR.
