Personal Details

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Nationality Canadian
Date of Birth 1872
Place of Birth Queenstown, Ontario, Canada
Veterinary College and Date of Graduation Ontario Veterinary College - 1892

Military Service

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Last Rank Captain
Regiment/Service Canadian Veterinary Corps
Secondary Regiment Canadian Field Artillery
Secondary Unit 12th Brigade
First Theatre of War France Unknown Date

Casualty Details

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Date of Death 25 May 1917
Age at Death 46
Place of Death London, England
Cause of Death Broke both Tibia and Fibula in fall from horse, resultinhi blood clot in the lung

Cemetery

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Cemetery Nunhead Cemetery London
Location London, England
Grave Reference 52.32657
Commonwealth War Grave Yes - CWGC Headstone
Emblem or Badge on Headstone Canadian Maple Leaf

Honours and Memorials

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Name on RCVS Honour Board No
Name In Officers who died in Great War No
Medals and Awards
  • British War Medal 1914-1918
  • Victory Medal

Biography

Captain Charles William Baker was born in Ontario on 4 September 1872.

He graduated from the Ontario Veterinarian College in 1892. On the 4th of February 1915, he left Toronto as a Lieutenant with the British Army. After a year, he came home for two months, returned to France as a Captain, and transferred to the Canadian army.

Captain Baker served in various veterinary hospitals on the front in France. On 27 December 1916, when serving near Arras, he fell from his horse and broke both his Tibia and Fibula. He was transferred to the First General Hospital in London, where he subsequently died from a blood clot.

He is buried in the Nunhead Cemetery London.

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