BAKER, Kenneth Claude
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Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
1 Commando
Prior Police Service:
West Sussex Constabulary
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Sussex Regiment
Service:
Army
Number:
14241727
Born:
Sunday, June 20, 1915
Died:
1994
Place died:
Worthing Sussex
Private Kenneth Baker was wounded 23 February 1943 during operations in North Africa. He had volunteered for the Commandos from the Police as part of the Police Intakes of 1942 to the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre), Achnacarry.
In 1939 he was single, residing at Havelock Road, Bognor Regis, and his occupation listed as Police. He was also a former goalkeeper with Worthing Wednesday Football Club.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/58.
The 1939 Register cobvering Bognor Regis.
Registers of Deaths in Worthing, registered in June 1994.
Report in the Worthing Herald 19 February 1943 (below).
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