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Frederick Ianson Baker

In memory of:

Corporal Frederick Ianson Baker

July 25, 1944
In the field, France

Military Service


Service Number:

A/372

Age:

25

Force:

Army

Unit:

1st Hussars, R.C.A.C.

Division:

6th Armd. Regt.

Additional Information


Born:

January 22, 1919
Scunthorpe, United Kingdom

Enlistment:

September 21, 1939
London, Ontario

Son of John and Evangeline Baker of London, Ontario, Canada.

Commemorated on Page 241 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

BAYEUX MEMORIAL
Calvados, France

Grave Reference:

Panel 19. Column 2.

Location:

The Bayeux Memorial is located on the by-pass Rue de Sir Fabian Ware, in the south-western outskirts of the town of Bayeux, in Normandy, about 24 kilometres north-west of Caen. The memorial was erected in honour of the 1,803 men of the land forces who died in the fighting in Normandy and in the advance to the River Seine, and who have no known grave.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Inscription– Bayeux Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram March 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of Frederick I. Baker– Cpl. F. I. Baker
  • Memorial
  • Memorial– Memorial headstone for Corporal Frederick Ianson Baker, Thornhill Cemetery, Ontario

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