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Postby mallosa » Tue Mar 10, 2020 7:29 am

I could do with some help on this one please, I'd like to add him to BCC

gallery/image_page.php?album_id=210&image_id=8947

Can we find anything?
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Re: Pte William (Bill) Baker

Postby rockyfowler » Tue Mar 10, 2020 12:28 pm

Bill was a POW in Singapore and died on a ship 1944 (listed on war memorials) https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casu ... ,-william/

27 Jan 1941 Christ Church Quarry Bank
William BAKER 21 B Soldier 14 Hillside Avenue Father Alfred Isaiah Baker Steel Worker
Lucy CARRIER 19 S 67 Thorns Avenue Father George Thomas Carrier Iron Worker
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Wit; Leonard Bedford / George Thomas Carrier
They don`t fit in BCC but will be put in as a loose end
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Re: Pte William (Bill) Baker

Postby mallosa » Tue Mar 10, 2020 3:01 pm

Thanks Rocky :wink:

On the memorial it says 'drowned at sea'
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Re: Pte William (Bill) Baker

Postby rockyfowler » Tue Mar 10, 2020 3:50 pm

Still on the ship when it sank :cry: No burial just a stone memorial


15 Feb 1947 Christ Church Quarry Bank
Joseph Rupert CLARKE 25 B Steel Worker 32 Gorsty Ave Brockmoor Father James Clarke Steel Worker
Lucy BAKER 25 W 67 Thorns Ave Quarry Bank Father George Thomas Carrier (Dec)-
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Wit; Freda Elizabeth Carrier / Thomas Flood
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Re: Pte William (Bill) Baker

Postby mallosa » Tue Mar 10, 2020 6:17 pm

Ah how sad, that explains it! Thanks again Rocky :thumbup:
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Re: Pte William (Bill) Baker

Postby mallosa » Tue Mar 10, 2020 10:41 pm

Completed with thanks - https://www.tribalpages.com/tribe/brows ... =365833378
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