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“If you think, have a kindly thought, If you speak, speak generously, Of those who as heroes fought And died to keep you free”
Set up by the Black Country Society. Our aim is to highlight local men who died in the Great War and how they have been commemorated on war memorials. Its scope covers the whole of the present Dudley Municipal Borough and therefore includes the places which have come within its bounds since 1914.
There are over fifty memorials and the number of names exceeds three thousand. Research on the names has been extensive but inevitably errors and omissions occur. We would like to hear about them concentrated on life and work before 1914, involvement in military campaigns and where each man is buried or commemorated.
William Baker was the son of William and Sarah of 10 Newhall Street, Dudley. He enlisted in the Warwicks and was sent to the 1st Battalion on the Western Front. He was probably in one of the youngest conscript cohorts and these men were only released from their Training Battalions after the 1918 German Spring offensives. The Warwicks were suffered heavily in these offensives and after rebuilding took part in the advance to victory which started on the 22nd August. HePrivate William Baker was seriously injured at some point and sent to a base hospital near Wimereux where he died of wounds on the 25th August. He was 19 years of age and is buried in Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille (II E 9 and commemorated on the Dudley Memorial.
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