Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant A. W. Baker, 1/5th Battalion King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, late South Afican Light Horse and Transvaal Mounted Rifles, killed in action, battle of the Somme, 28 July 1916

Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Cpl., Transvaal Mtd.. Rifles); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); Coronation 1911, silver; Memorial Plaque (Arthur William Baker) extremely fine (5) £450-550

Arthur William Baker served with the Transvaal Mounted Rifles in the suppression of the Natal Rebellion in 1906. In the Great War he served as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 1/5th Battalion King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and was killed in action on 28 July 1916, aged 40 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. He was the son of the Rev. J. J. Baker and Mrs E. J. Bajer, of Little Hallingbury Rectory, Essex.

With original photograph of the recipient in uniform; named memorial scroll and slip to accompany the plaque. The medals, plaque, photograph, scroll and slip are fitted into an attractive custom-made ‘triptych’ style series of glazed frames. With original group photograph postcard sent by Baker to his sister (?) - ‘Miss M. E. Baker, 31 Kings Road, Horsham, Sussex’, dated 17 May 1916.

Some copied research.