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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth London
• Land England
• Family Son of Mrs. Elizabeth Baker, of 13, Russell St., Plaistow, London.
• Extra info Deserted several times; first arrest April 1918; deserted 22 April, tried to take the mail boat to Boulogne; arrested in Boulogne 18 May and brought back to his battalion; he escaped and tried to reach the hospital in Etaples but he was arrested again on 21 June; sentenced to death by F.G.C.M. (Field General Court Martial); shot at dawn in the field.

Military service

• Service number GS/22635
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 26th Bn. Royal Fusiliers

Death

• Wounded Mizen Farm
• Type of wounds Shot at dawn
• Died at the age of 21
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXV - B - 22

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