Name
Thomas Baker
1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/08/1917
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
202878
Essex Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 98 to 99.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Christ Church (Formerly Holy Trinity Church) Memorial, Waltham Cross, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Thomas Baker was born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire in 1886, son of Thomas Baker and Sarah Baker (nee Woodhouse). One of ten children, two brothers and seven sisters. His father Thomas was employed by the Royal Small Arms Factory (RSAF). Thomas was Baptised on 9 April 1900 at, St Georges Church, Enfield, Middx, with his brother George James (B 1891) and sister Minnie (B 1894).
1891 Census records Thomas aged 4, living with his parents and seven siblings in, Mandeville Road, Enfield, Middx. 1901 Census records Thomas aged 13, working as a Test Room Hand, living with his parent and nine siblings at, 18, St Stephens Road, Enfield, Middx. 1911 Census records Thomas his parents and four siblings now living at, 3, Ingersoll Road, Enfield Highway, Middx.
Thomas married Florence Eleanor Appleton the daughter of John and Ann Appleton of Waltham Cross, in the later part of 1913. They went on to have two children Gladys Maud Baker and Hilda F. Baker.
Wartime Service
Thomas enlisted at Cheshunt, Herts, posted to the Hertfordshire Regiment with the service number 268063, later transferred to the Essex Regiment with the service number 202878. Seeing action on the Western Front.
He was Killed in Action on the 23 August 1917, he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium to the missing.
Additional Information
His effects of £2-4s-0d, Pay Owing and a War Gratuity of £3, went to his widow Florence Baker.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
