Francis Charles Baker

Forenames

Francis Charles AWMM

Surname

Baker AWMM

Service number

WWI 44246 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

6 Sept 1896 AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Mrs C.H. Baker (mother), Woodhill, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 26 Apr 1917 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 44246 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 27 Nov 1916 AWMM
Age  20 AWMM
Telegraph cadet clerk/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 26 Apr 1917-28 Jul 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 82 AWMM Vessel was Pakeha AWMM Rifleman AWMM H Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 3rd Battalion AWMM

Francis Baker was the son of Charles Hickling Baker and Jane Francis Baker, of Whangarei, New Zealand.

Next of Kin: Mr C. Baker, Kirikiri Rd, Whangarei (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

8 Dec 1917 AWMM
Age  21 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Polygon Wood Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM G. 14. AWMM

Memorial name

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22272092
  Further Reference
• 'Personal' Northern Advocate, 29th December 1917
  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NA19171229.2.16
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/480003/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/480003
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/1636
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
• Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  60: 17
• Northern Advocate
  12 January 1918, Page 2
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 1: Includes portrait
• Information kindly provided by family
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 5: Includes portrait
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• HMNZT 82 - The Pakeha (Mark III) : being the journal of the Left Wing of the 24th New Zealand Reinforcements. Burge, W.R. (William Ralph), editor. -- At sea : Officers and men, 24th Reinforcements : 1917