Varley Howard Baker

Forenames

Varley Howard AWMM

Surname

Baker AWMM

Also known as

Karley Howard Baker AWMM

Service number

WWI 23335 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Date of birth

b. 1896

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Place of birth

Bay of Islands

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Birth notes

Son of Philip James and Eleanor Baker, of Russell, Bay of Islands

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Next of kin

Mrs C.A. Michie (mother), Okaihau, Bay of Islands, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Single

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War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

Battle of the Somme AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 23335 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Bushman/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 27 May 1916-27 Jul 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 55 AWMM Vessel was Tofua AWMM Rifleman AWMM 7th Reinforcements 1st Battalion, E Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM

Varley Baker was the son of Philip James and Eleanor Baker of Russell, Bay of Islands, New Zealand.

His three brothers Theodore Russell Baker, Phillip Leonard Baker, and Arthur Wilmott Baker, also served in World War I. His nephew Theodore Russell Baker was killed in World War II.

Next of Kin: Mrs C. E. Michie, Okaihau, Bay of Islds. (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

5 Oct 1916 AWMM
Age  20 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-l'Abbe, Somme, France AWMM IV. J. 20. AWMM

Obituary

PRIVATE V. H. BAKER.
Private Variey Howard Baker, who has died of wounds, was the fourth son of the late Mr. Philip J. Baker, of Russell, and grandson of the late Mr. Walter Irving, of Waitangi, Bay of Islands. Prior to leaving for the front he was working for the Kauri -Timber Company at Puketi. He was 20 years of age.

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 1 September 2025 - PRIVATE V. H. BAKER.
New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16374, 31 October 1916, Page 9

Memorial name

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Okaihau First World War memorial gates, Horeke Rd, Northland AWMM
• Kaikohe War Memorial Hall, Memorial Drive Kaikohe Far North AWMM
• St John the Baptist Anglican Church, Waimate North, Northland AWMM
• Kerikeri War Memorial, RSA Clubrooms, Kerikeri AWMM
• Kerikeri War Memorial, RSA Clubrooms, Kerikeri AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22272223
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/270198/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/270198
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  33: 26
• 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. 3: Includes portrait
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Scadden, J. (2018). Broken branches : New Zealand families who lost three or more children in the Great War.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Burton, O. (1922). The Auckland regiment : being an account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• 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 55 - The Crusader : official organ of Thirteenth Reinforcements aboard H.M.N.Z.T. No.55 -- London : Printed by Spottiswoode Ballantyne and Co. Ltd.