BAKER, Kenneth

Rank: 
Corporal
Unit / Base: 
8 Commando
Independent Companies and Special Service Battalions
'Layforce'
Regiment/Corps: 
Devonshire Regiment
Service: 
Army
Number: 
5618955
Died : 
Thursday, June 12, 1941
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
32
Cemetery/Memorial: 

Corporal Kenneth Baker was killed in action during operations in Libya with Layforce. Son of Thomas and Sarah Baker, of Torrington, Devon; husband of Sylvia Emily Jane Baker, of Torrington.

Sources
CWGC (shows secondary unit as 4th Special Service Bn.).
British Army Casualties List / National Archives file WO 417/35.

Notes
4 Special Service Bn. (formed from No.8 Commando and No.3 Commando) was a very short lived title redesignation of these Commando Units and was no longer in use at the time of his death. No.8 Commando became part of 'B' Bn Layforce in the Middle East.

Primary Roll of Honour: 

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