William Torode Baker

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

William Torode AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Baker AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 44692 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

5 Dec 1896 Military Personnel File

Uri kiritahi

WW1 William T. Baker (father), Ramarama, near Drury, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 05 Apr 1917 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 44692 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 05 Apr 1917-10 Jun 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 81 AWMM Vessel was Devon AWMM Private AWMM 24th Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Regiment, A Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM

Son of William T. and Alice C. Baker, of Station Rd., Otahuhu

Remembered on the Drury-Runciman Memorial.

Brother of Private Edward Victor Baker 65928 (WW1) and uncle of Gunner Trevor William Baker 459263 (WW2).

Next of Kin: Mr W. T. Baker, Station Rd, Otahuhu (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Matenga

4 Oct 1917 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Drury-Runciman Memorial, near Drury Hall, New Zealand AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Tangata Ope Tauā

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22272268
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand History online. Drury Runciman War Memorial.
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/drury-first-world-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• 'Courage…Commitment…and Comrades'. Poem by Wendy Baker. Recited at Mount Maunganui RSA, Anzac Day 2017.
  http://www.mtrsa.co.nz/2017/04/05/anzac-poem/
  Further Reference
• 'Of courage, commitment and comrades', Cayla-Fay Saunders, Sun Live, 25 April, 2017.
  http://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/152665-of-courage-commitment-and-comrades.html
  Further Reference
• 'Runner Wendy Baker wins World Masters Games bronze medal in great uncle's honour', Waikato Times, 2 May, 2017.
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/hauraki-herald/92118334/Runner-Wendy-Baker-wins-World-Masters-Games-bronze-medal-in-great-uncles-honour
  Further Reference
• 'In Memoriam', New Zealand Herald, 4 Octover, 1919.
  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19191004.2.110?query=WILLIAM%20TORODE%20BAKER
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/847242/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/847242
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  59: 4
• Information kindly provided by family
• 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.
• HMNZT 81 - Bulldogs' bark and Devon lyre : being the unofficial organ of the Right Wing, 24th Reinforcement. N.Z.E.F. Morgan, R.C. (Robert Carhampton), editor. Kiely, R.D. (Robert Dale), editor. -- Capetown : Printed by the Cape Times : 1917