Name
Thomas William Baker
1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/10/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
204159
Seaforth Highlanders
1st/4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GUEMAPPE BRITISH CEMETERY, WANCOURT
I. A. 22.
France
Headstone Inscription
THAT HE MAY REST FROM HIS LABOURS AND ALL MAY BE ONE IVY, NIBS, FRAN.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials, Roll of Honour, St Mary's Church, Comberton, Cambs, Comberton Baptist Church Memorial, Comberton,Cambs
Pre War
Thomas
William Baker was born in 1892 in Bromley, Kent, the son of James and Fanny Baker. His mother died in 1893 and his father
in 1899. On the 1901 Census he was living with his grandmother Phoebe Baker a
Grocer/Shopkeeper, at South Street, Comberton, Cambridgeshire. By 1911 he was boarding
with George and Emma Crookston at 59 Eden Street, Cambridge and working as an
outfitters shop assistant. His sister Ivy married Herbert Matthews in 1915 and
moved to Bishop's Stortford. Her husband also served and received a gunshot
wound and he was sent back to England in September 1917 but survived the war.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bedford, where the 1/4th (Ross Highland) Battalion Territorial Force were moved, having previously been stationed at Dingwall, Scotland. He
served in France from 7 November 1914 and would have been involved in many actions on the Western Front, including the 1st and 2nd Battles of the Scarpe, Battle of Pilckem Ridge and Battle of Menin Road Ridge.
Additional Information
Also served under Reg. No. 2170 and in the Highland Light Infantry Reg. No. 32325. His sister Mrs Ivy Matthews received a war gratuity of £13 10s and pay owing was divided between his sisters, Ivy Matthews, Beatrice Baker and Mrs Frances M A Molloy.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
