Birth: July-September 1888 Gloucester, Gloucestershire, UK
Father: George Aaron Baker 1851-a1917
Mother: Anne (Annie) Isabella James 1857-1907
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Unknown
Wife: Unknown
Death: 8 August 1917 Pas-de-Calais, France
Burial: VIII.F.2 Villiers Station Cemetery, Villers-au-Bois, Pas-de-Calais, France
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Birth of Alfred Robert Baker in FreeBMD in July-September 1888 in Gloucester (6a 267).
In the 1891 census as Alfred R Baker aged 2, born in Gloucestershire, and living with his parents (George A and Annie I), three sisters (Annie J, Edith C and Miller I) and a servant (Eiliza A Willis aged 15, and born in Gloucestershire) at 128 Oxford Road, Gloucester St Catherine, Gloucestershire.
In the 1901 census as Alfred R Baker aged 12, born in Gloucester, and living with his two brothers (George F and Walter), three sisters (Annie J, Edith C and Nellie J), a visitor (Jefferies Pitt aged 21, born in Ebby Stroud, Gloucestershire, single, and employed as a drapers assistant) and a servant (Florence A Grainger aged 18, born in Gloucester, and single) in Alexander Road, Gloucester St Nicholas, Gloucestershire. Note that there is no head of household - I assume his parents were just visiting his uncle Alfred and family at 3 Stensham Hill, Moseley, Kings Norton, Worcestershire.
I assume he emigrated to Canada after 1901 and took Canadian nationality.
Entry in the Commonwealth War Graves Commision for Alfred Robert Baker, a private, service number 823439, in the Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment) 87 Btn on 14 August 1917. Although his nationality was Canadian he was the son of G. A. and A. I. Baker, of 5, Southgate St., Gloucester, England. He is buried at VIII.F.2 Villiers Station Cemetery, Villers-au-Bois, Pas-de-Calais, France (note that this was some four months after Vimy Ridge and some were reburied here after the Armistice).
Bex Wheatley has an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Alfred Robert Baker born on 7 July 1888 in Gloucester, parents George Aaron Baker and Anne Isabell James, and his death on 14 August 1917 as a member of the Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment).
Alfred Robert Baker was my half third cousin once removed.
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