A Collection of Medals to the South Wales Borderers

Pair: Private H. S. Baker, South Wales Borderers, later Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who died of wounds on 9 October 1918

British War and Victory Medals (49097 Pte. H. Baker. S. Wales Bord.); Memorial Plaque (Henry Baker) nearly extremely fine (3) £80-£120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the South Wales Borderers.

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Henry Sidney Baker was born in Ynysybwl near Pontypridd, Glamorgan in 1899 and attested for the South Wales Borderers on 26 February 1916, aged 17. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 11 September 1918, before transferring to the 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusilier on 18 September 1918. He was mortally wounded on 8 October 1918 and died the next day at the Canadian Casualty Clearing Station, France. He is buried at Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery, Manancourt, France.

Sold with copied Medal Index Card and other research.