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Name: D W BAKER
Rank: Temp Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RCNVR
Squadron: 857 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Indomitable
Date of death: 1945-04-16
Aircraft: Avenger JZ 424
Place of death: Sakishima Gunto
Circumstances: M.P.K
Buried/commemorated: HALIFAX MEMORIAL, Nova Scotia and Island Command Cemetery, Okinawa, Japan
Commemoration details: Panel 13
Family details: Son of Lieut-Colonel Edwin A. Baker and Jessie Baker of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Rank: Temp Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RCNVR
Squadron: 857 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Indomitable
Date of death: 1945-04-16
Aircraft: Avenger JZ 424
Place of death: Sakishima Gunto
Circumstances: M.P.K
Buried/commemorated: HALIFAX MEMORIAL, Nova Scotia and Island Command Cemetery, Okinawa, Japan
Commemoration details: Panel 13
Family details: Son of Lieut-Colonel Edwin A. Baker and Jessie Baker of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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