Name
FREDERICK HARRY WILLIAM BAKER
9/03/1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/10/1918
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
131936
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
19th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE
XVII. E. 16.
France
Headstone Inscription
HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Christ Church (Formerly Holy Trinity Church) Memorial, Waltham Cross. Not on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Frederick Harry William Baker was born in Waltham Cross,
Hertfordshire, on 9 March 1899, son of Frederick Charles Baker and Minnie Baker
(nee Miller). The eldest of five children, three brothers and one sister.
He was baptised in the Parish of Waltham Cross, on 21 May
1899.
1901 Census records Fredericks parents living with his
widower grandfather Henry T. Miller (57) at 4, Melbourne Road, Cheshunt, Herts.
No census record for Frederick was found, he would have been about 2 years old
at the time.
1911 Census records Frederick aged 13, at school, living
with his parents, three brothers and sister Minnie (3) at, 38 Crescent Road,
Waltham Cross, Herts.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted at Waltham Cross, Herts, posted to the
Machine Gun Corps with the service number 131936. Seeing action on the Western
Front.
He was taken a Prisoner of War at Messines on 11 April 1918,
during the Battle of the Lys, (9 April 1918 to 29 April 1918).
He died at the German War Hospital, Charleville in France,
on 4 October 1918, of an intestinal problem and buried in the Charleville
Communal Cemetery. His body and that of the other allied casualties buried
there were exhumed in 1962, when the Cemetery was closed and reburied in the
CWGC Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, France.
Additional Information
His effects of £16-9s-3d, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity of £8, went to his father Frederick Baker. His POW record is available on the "International Committee of the Red Cross" database.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
