Baker, John William

BORN HULL 1896. LEFT MOTHER, FATHER & FAMILY. EX NEWSBOY IN CHURCH LANE, HULL. ENLISTED IN HULL. EX 34899 LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT. WENT TO FRANCE MARCH 1917. TRANSFERRED TO THE 1ST DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S (WILTSHIRE) REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 23/10/1918, AGED 22. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, MARGARET. BURIED AT INCHY COMMUNAL CEMETERY, NORD, FRANCE. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 10/01/1919. *

HIS BROTHER HENRY WAS WOUNDED AND TAKEN PRISONER DURING THE WAR.


First name:
JOHN WILLIAM
Military Number:
28287
Rank:
Private
Date Died
23/10/1918
Place died:
Inchy Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France
Age:
22
18 BRAEMAR TERRACE, WALCOTT STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK