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COMPLETED - Pte William (Bill) Baker
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2020 7:29 am
by mallosa
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=8947Can we find anything?
Re: Pte William (Bill) Baker
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2020 12:28 pm
by rockyfowler
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
By License
Wit; Leonard Bedford / George Thomas Carrier
They don`t fit in BCC but will be put in as a loose end
Re: Pte William (Bill) Baker
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2020 3:01 pm
by mallosa
Thanks Rocky
On the memorial it says 'drowned at sea'
Re: Pte William (Bill) Baker
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2020 3:50 pm
by rockyfowler
Still on the ship when it sank
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)-
By Licence
Wit; Freda Elizabeth Carrier / Thomas Flood
Re: Pte William (Bill) Baker
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2020 6:17 pm
by mallosa
Ah how sad, that explains it! Thanks again Rocky
Re: Pte William (Bill) Baker
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2020 10:41 pm
by mallosa