Eric Cecil Baker

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Eric Cecil AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Baker AWMM

Nama Hōia

29282 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM 95 Queen Street, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs M.E. Baker (wife), 406 Manukau Road, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Unknown AWMM Married AWMM

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

Tunisia AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

29282 AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Unknown AWMM Tobacconist/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Lieutenant/Military AWMM Infantry Brigade AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Lieutenant/Military AWMM
24 (Auckland) Infantry Battalion AWMM

Son of James and Elizabeth Baker; husband of Myrtle Baker, of Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Matenga

28 Mar 1943 AWMM
Age  38 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Medjez-el-Bab Memorial, Tunisia AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2541364
Sources Used

Ngā tuhinga

• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1942). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 5 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1941 to 30 September, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
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• Burdon, R. (1959). 24 Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
• Fortune, G. & Bebich, M. (2008). Citizenship and remembrance : a history of the 24 NZ Infantry Battalion Association. Auckland, N.Z.: Polygraphia.