Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Robert Edwin Baker
In memory of:
Flying Officer Robert Edwin Baker
September 8, 1943
Military Service
J/20144
21
Air Force
Royal Canadian Air Force
414 Sqdn.
Additional Information
Son of Alfred Allen Baker and Jeanie Jeffrey Baker, of Sedgewick, Alberta, Canada.
Commemorated on Page 133 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
BERGEN GENERAL CEMETERY
Netherlands
Plot 2. Row B. Grave 2.
Bergen is on the coast 6 kilometres north-west of Alkmaar and 43 kilometres north-north-west of Amsterdam, lying 3 kilometres west of the main Alkmaar-Den Helder road. The BERGEN GENERAL CEMETERY is on the north-eastern outskirts of Bergen, in the road known as Kerkedijk. The British plots are in the south-eastern part of the cemetery.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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Grave Marker – Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, Putten, The Netherlands Pilot F/O Baker, age 21, was killed when his Mustang aircraft was shot down by a German FW-190 fighter near Percidick, France. (source: They Shall Grow Not Old, Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, Manitoba)
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