BAKER George Stanley Charles

  • First Name(s):
    George 
    Stanley 
    Charles 
  • Surname:
    BAKER
  • Service Number:
    Unknown
  • Rank:

    Lieutenant

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
  • Battalion:
    2nd Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    23rd September 1916
  • Age At Death:
    21
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Bristol (Canford) Cemetery, Gloucestershire, England, Section C. Grave 171.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Benjamin Alfred Baxter, 37 Clyde Rd., Redlands, Bristol

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

BAKER George Stanley Charles Is Named On These Memorials

Bromsgrove School WW1 Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Additional information on the memorial: Lieut.

Further Information About BAKER George Stanley Charles

George Baker was born in 1896 and he attended Bromsgrove School from 1908-1912. In October 1914 he obtained a commission but after serving for a month in France he was wounded with a piece of shrapnel through his lung and returned home in June 1915. On recovery he was attached to the Royal Berkshire Regiment before rejoining his own regiment in September as a bombing officer. During bombing practice on the Isle of Wight, a bomb thrown by a young soldier failed to clear the parapet. George Baker tried to throw the bomb from the ditch but it exploded in his hand killing him instantly.

Source for additional information: Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by Philip Bowen.

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