Second Lieutenant Colin Claud Baker

Army Number: n/a formerly Private 1772 Pay Corps.

Battalion: 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Joseph Henry and Annie Baker, of Sandiacre, Nottingham. He was a factory manager prior to enlisting. He went to France on 20th April 1915. Was commissioned Second Lieutenant 13th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 23rd August 1915 and joined the 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment at Halloy, France. He was wounded on 24th April 1917 at Bayonet Trench, near Arras and died of wounds, 12th May 1917, aged 28.

Buried Etaples Military Cemetery, France. Plot 17. Row A. Grave 17.

Second Lieutenant Colin Claud Baker is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
All Saint’s Church War Memorial, Risley, Derbyshire.
St. Giles Church War Memorial, Sandiacre, Derbyshire.