Lance Corporal Malcolm Robert Baker
Lance Corporal Baker was 25 when he died on the 22nd July 1916, he enlisted in
the Bedfordshire Regiment in Bury St Edmunds and was a resident of Bawdsey.
He does not appear on the 1911 census for Bawdsey and his parents, Joseph
and Rosetta, and his wife Nellie are all residents of Woolpit.
However the census does record Malcom as living with his Grandfather in Heath
Row, Woolpit in 1901 when he was aged 9. The 1911 census has him living in
Henley on Thames where he is employed as a gardener for a Swedish match
manufacturer, Fred Lowenadler. Malcom is then aged 19.
Lance Corporal Baker is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme
Panel 02C, therefore he has no known grave.
Sir ~Cuthbert Quilter was at the time the main land-owner in the area, owing
several houses and a great deal of land. ~Therefore to explain Lance Corporal
Baker’s presence in Bawdsey at the outbreak of war and between the census in
1911 and 1921, it’s safe to assume that he worked for Sir Cuthbert.
Unfortunately, no estate records from this time were available for confirmation.