2463 Walter Ernest BAKER

Date of enlistment	13^th July 1915
Rank at enlistment	Private
Company	Transferred to 6^th Trench Mortar Battery
Significant events while with the AIF	Hospitalised sick on three occasions Awarded Military Medal

Summary of Private Baker’s WW1 service record, located in the National Archives of Australia. Full details are available online, NAA Series B2455

Date	Location	Event
25^th October 1919	Australia	Disembarked
5^th September 1919	England	Return to Australia on Plassy
3^rd July 1919	England	Discharged from hospital
27^th May 1919	England	Admitted to Parkhouse General Hospital with pleurisy and later jaundice
16^th January 1919	France	Embarked for England on Grantully Castle
5^th November 1918	France	Absent without leave – 4 days FP#2 and forfeit of 4 days pay
1^st September 1918	France	Awarded Military Medal
24^th August 1918	France	Absent without leave forfeit of 2 days pay
20^th November 1917	Belgium	To hospital sick
2^nd June 1917	France	Re-joined unit
16^th February 1917	France	To hospital sick
12^th May 1916	France	Transferred to 6^th Trench Mortar Battery
26^th March 1916	France	Disembarked Marseille
19^th March 1916	Egypt	Proceeded to join British Expeditionary Force from Alexandria on the Llandovery Castle
8^th January 1916	Egypt	Taken on Strength, Tel-el-Kabir
25^th October 1915	Egypt	Disembarked Alexandria
29^th September 1915	Australia	Departed Melbourne on RMS Osterley
15^th September 1915	Australia	Assigned to 5^th Reinforcements 22^nd Battalion
28^th July 1915	Australia	Marched into Broadmeadows depot