Frank Farmer Baker (1887-1917)


Dates

Birth: April-June 1887 Leamington, Warwickshire, UK
Father: Alfred Baker 1853-a1901
Mother: Eliza Farmer 1858-a1901

Christening: Unknown

Marriage: Unknown
Wife: Unknown

Death: 30 October 1917 Passchendaele, Belgium

Children

Unknown

Notes

Birth of Frank Farmer Baker in FreeBMD in FreeBMD in April-June 1887 in Warwick (6d 593) which included Leamington.

In the 1891 census as Frank F Baker aged 4, born in Leamington, Warwickshire, and living with his parents (Alfred and Eliza), three brothers (Alfred F, Stanley F, Walter F), sister (Lilian M), and two servants (Elizabeth F Goodreid aged 21 born in Willenhall, Staffordshire, single and a cook, and Florence M Poulter aged 20, born in Saltley, Warwickshire, single and domestic nurse) at 24 Forest Road, Kings Norton, Worcestershire.

In the 1901 census as Frank Baker aged 14, born in Leamington, Warwickshire, and living with his parents (Alfred and Eliza), two brothers (Eric and Walter), sister (Lilian), uncle and aunt (George and Annie Baker), and two servants (Annie Philips aged 20, born in Maesbury, Shropshire, single and a domestic housemaid and Mary Ann Wainwright aged 20, born in Market Drayton, Shropshire, single and a domestic cook) at 3 Stensham Hill, Moseley, Kings Norton, Worcestershire (off A435 Alcester Road near Park Hill).

Entry in Commonwealth War Graves for Frank F Baker, son of Alfred and Eliza Baker, of "Camborne," 3, Strensham Hill, Moseley, Birmingham, number 763774 in 1st/28th Bn. London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) on 30 October 1917 on Panel 153 of Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium (9 kilometres north east of Ieper town centre, on the Tynecotstraat, a road leading from the Zonnebeekseweg N332). This was in the Third Battle of Ypres, an offensive mounted by Commonwealth forces to divert German attention from a weakened French front further south. The initial attempt in June to dislodge the Germans from the Messines Ridge was a complete success, but the main assault north-eastward, which began at the end of July, quickly became a dogged struggle against determined opposition and the rapidly deteriorating weather. The campaign finally came to a close in November with the capture of Passchendaele. The Tyne Cot Memorial now bears the names of almost 35,000 officers and men whose graves are not known. The memorial, designed by Sir Herbert Baker with sculpture by Joseph Armitage and F V Blundstone, was unveiled by Sir Gilbert Dyett in July 1927.

Relationship

Frank Farmer Baker was my half third cousin once removed.

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