Name
George Baker
About April1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/08/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
35914
Gloucestershire Regiment
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL
Panel 6.
France
Headstone Inscription
No inscription
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial, Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans, St Michael's Church Memorial, St Albans
Pre War
George Baker was born about April 1899 in Saint Albans to William Edward and Kate Baker.
The 1901 Census shows the family living at 16 Lower Dagnall Street. By the following year the family had moved to Newcastle-under-Lyme, but the 1911 Census shows George living with his maternal grandmother, Emma Foster, at 86 Fishpool Street Saint Albans. She is listed as his dependant on his Pension Record Card.
Wartime Service
Soldiers Effects register shows Killed in Action 21 to 25 August 1918.
War Gratuity of £4-10-0 to mother, Kate. Amount indicates his enlistment date was about June 1917.
George's Service Record was destroyed in WW2 so we have no further details of his service.
12th Battalion Glosters were in action during the Second Battle of Bapaume, where it suffered some 100 casualties on 21 August but succeeded in capturing Irles on 23 August.
George Baker was recorded as killed in action between 21st and 25th August. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial.
Additional Information
George's younger brother Frank Stanley Baker enlisted in the RAF on 31 August 1918, aged 17.
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes
Gareth Hughes
