Name
James Thomas Baker
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/09/1917
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sapper
496843
Royal Engineers
474th Field Survey Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BUFFS ROAD CEMETERY
E. 37.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Eldeston of James Albert and Ellen (nee GATES) Baker of Southend-on-Sea, Essex; husband of Ada Gertrude (nee HARDING) BAKER of Watford.
His parents married 16 May 1888 at All Saints, Edmonton, Middx. James died 5 February 1938 in Southend aged 77; Ellen died 24 July 1946 in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, aged 80.
James was born 2 March 1889 in York County, Toronto, Canada [not Southend], and married 1914 in the Rochford, Essex, district. Ada never remarried, and died 20 December 1968 in Watford aged 80.
He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar.
On the 1891 Canadian Census, aged 2 he lived in Toronto West, with his parents and no siblings. On the 1901 Census, aged 12 he lived in Prittlewell, Essex, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a plasterer aged 22, he lived in Southend, with his parents and five siblings.
Wartime Service
He was formerly Sapper T/3862 Corps of Royal Engineers; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
*1 His wife's address was recorded after his death, so it is possible that he has no direct connection to Watford. More research is required. His brother Albert C. also fell.
