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Awards/Honours: BWM, VM, MP, MS, WAR.
Veteran Story: Carl John (Jack) Baker, was born near the town of Innisfail in 1886. He married Ada Lyall in 1908 at the Yarrabah Aboriginal Mission, and when he enlisted in August 1917 was living at Edge Hill, Cairns with his two small children. Baker trained at Enoggera, where he was assigned to the 15th Infantry Battalion and embarked on HMAT Euripides in October 1917, during the voyage Baker was hospitalised first with pleurisy, and then with mumps. Baker arrived in France in April 1918 and joined his battalion which was fighting near Villers Bretonneaux. In August 1918 he was wounded in action, when his company was near Bayonvillers and was admitted to the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance with multiple shrapnel wounds, he died same day. Jack Baker is buried at Villers Bretonneux Communal Cemetery, south west of Corbie, France. His name is also located at panel 74 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
