Tuesday 13 April 2010

2755 Pte Edmund Arthur Baker, 1st Bn, Cambs Regt

2755 Private Edmund Arthur Baker of the 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment, was killed in action on the 13th April 1915. He was 22 years old, the son of Walter and Martha Baker of Hatley Street, George, Sandy in Bedfordshire. Edmund's number indicates that he joined the Cambridgeshire Regiment in September 1914, and his medal index card states that he arrived overseas in France on the 14th February 1915. No service record appears to survive.

Edmund Baker has no known grave and he is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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