BAKER, Fred

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Rank: 
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base: 
3 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
South Staffordshire Regiment
Service: 
Army
Service Number: 
4923073
Died : 
Wednesday, July 14, 1943
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
26
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Catania War Cemetery Italy
Operations: 
‘Sicily - Operation Husky’
Lance Corporal Fred Baker No.3 Commando
Lance Corporal Baker, 1 troop, was killed in action during operations at Agnone and the bridge at Malati (3 Commando Bridge). Son of John Jesse and Pamela Baker, of Wolverhampton.
 
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/65.
ROH in Commando-Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in WW2 by Brig Durnford-Slater.
[Image] Cropped from No.3 Cdo. 1 Troop image in Gallery.
 
Primary Roll of Honour: 
3 Commando Roll of Honour
Photo of Commando in Gallery: 
Yes
Photo of grave in Gallery: 
Yes
Additional content: 
3 Commando at Sicily and Malati Bridge’
Archive pages : 
No 3 Commando

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