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.
Kenneth Claude Baker joined the West Sussex Constabulary in 1939. He was single and residing at Havelock Road, Bognor Regis. He volunteered for the Commandos and in 1942 joined the 2nd Police Intake to the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre), Achnacarry. He was also a former goalkeeper with Worthing Wednesday Football Club.
Kenneth Claude Baker joined the West Sussex Constabulary in 1939. He was single and residing at Havelock Road, Bognor Regis. He volunteered for the Commandos and in 1942 joined the 2nd Police Intake to the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre), Achnacarry. 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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