VICTOR STANLEY BAKER

IPSWICH WAR MEMORIAL | Posted on 4th February 2016 |

Image from the Chronicle And Mercury – 1918

Born: 26th January 1894, Ipswich.

Baptised on the 30^th September 1900, at All Saints Church, Ipswich, with sister Ethel Louisa Baker, born 9^th December 1890, and Kate Laura Baker, born 8^th September 1892 – family home at 16, Surbiton Road, Ipswich.

Died: 24th March 1918; age 24; died of wounds.

Residence: 30, Rope Walk, Ipswich.

Enlistment Location: Ipswich.

Rank: Private; Service Number: 20888

Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 12th Battalion.

Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.

The body was discovered in 1923 in a grave without a cross at Ecourt St. Quentin German Cemetery, by local labour under the supervision of Mr. C. Rutter. The body was exhumed and identified by fragments of a Grey Flannel Shirt, the G.B. List and Plan, and reburied at Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery.

Grave Reference:

XI.F.4.

Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery,

Hallcourt,

Pas de Calais,

France.

CENSUS

1901 16, Surbiton Road, Ipswich.

Victor was 7 years old and living with his widowed father and sisters.

Frederick William Baker, 40, a Bricklayer, born Woolpit, Suffolk.

Ida Olive Victorine Baker, 13, born Ipswich.

Ethel Louisa Elizabeth Baker, 10, born Ipswich.

Kate Laura Anna Baker, 8, born Ipswich.

1 housekeeper.

1911 30, Rope Walk, Ipswich.

Victor was 17 years old, an Apprentice French Polisher. He was living with his father, stepmother and her son.

William, 51, a Bricklayer.

Emily Baker (nee Mudd (1st marriage Orr)), 48, born Ipswich.

Archibald Robert Charles Orr, 14, a Foundry Labourer – Welding, born Ipswich.

Victor’s mother was Annie Baker (nee Dennant), born 1855, Ipswich – died 1894, Ipswich.

In 1903, in Ipswich, Victor’s father married Emily Orr (nee Mudd). Emily was first married in 1886 to Robert Charles Orr, an architect and surveyor, of Providence Street, Ipswich.

Soldiers’ Effects to Frederick W. Baker – father.

Victor is also commemorated at St. Mary le Elms Church, Ipswich.