Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Second Lieutenant H. Baker, Royal Marines, who was wounded at the Canal du Nord, 3-4 September 1918

British War and Victory Medals (2.Lt. H. Baker. R.M.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; together with the recipient’s Great War Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘RN43601’; Second War A.R.P. lapel badge; and Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs Bell Medal, bronze, unnamed as issued, good very fine and better (7) £70-£90

Herbert Baker was born on 11 November 1897, and attested as a Private for the Royal Marines at Yeovil, Somerset, on 8 December 1916. He served during the Great War with the Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from 27 March 1917, and was commissioned temporary Second Lieutenant on 6 November 1917. He was wounded in the fighting to gain possession of the Canal du Nord, 3-4 September 1918 (Britain’s Sea Soldiers refers), and relinquished his commission on medical grounds in early 1919.