Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Corporal H. E. Baker, Royal Army Medical Corps, for his gallantry in bringing severely wounded men to safety through heavy artillery barrage fire near Ypres in September 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (350276 Cpl. H. E. Baker. R.A.M.C.) number partially officially corrected, very fine £160-£200

M.M. London Gazette 14 May 1919.
The original citation states: ‘For bravery and devotion to duty whilst bringing severely wounded men through heavy artillery barrage fire during the night, and then carrying on under difficult conditions after the dressing stations had all been burnt out and totally destroyed by the enemy guns, near Ypres, September 1918.’

Herbert Edward Baker attested into the Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Force on 1 December 1914, for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front with 2/1st (East Lancashire) Field Ambulance, Territorial Force, from 27 February 1917. Discharged on 31 March 1920, he later died in Burnley, Lancashire, in 1941.

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