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Sydney Ernest Baker

Personal details

Date of birth Tuesday 29 January 1889
Mother's name Georgina
Father's name Ernest Maurice
Date of death Monday 30 September 1974
Place of death Wollongong
Cause of death Heart attack

Service details

Date enlisted Monday 13 November 1916
Rank at enlistment Private
Rank at discharge Private
Service Infantry
Unit 45th Battalion
Company 9 Reinforcements
Awards British War Medal, Victory Medal

Story

Private Sydney Baker (Service no. 3355) enlisted in Kiama on the 13th November, 1916. He later embarked on HMAT Anchises A68 with the 45th Battalion on the 24 January 1917 arriving in Le Havre, France.

He was wounded in action while in France on 3rd May, 1918.

Sydney returned to Australia in 1919. He embarked from England on the ORITA on the 23rd June, 1919 and arrived in Sydney on the 9th August, 1919.

Information sources

NAA: B2455, BAKER S E

Related links

https://aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=11609

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