| Notes: | CMP. Enlisted in the General Service Corps, transferred to CMP. He was born and resided in Lancashire. Casualty List 1797, India, Died, 14/6/1945. Inscription on gravestone: We cannot Lord thy purpose see but all is well that's done by thee.
Eric Richard Barker.
Extract from the Lancashire Evening Post, 2/7/45.
ECCLESTON MAN DIES IN INDIA.
A member of the Corps of Military Police serving with a Chindit force, Lance Corporal Eric Baker, died in a British Military Hospital in Cocanada, India, of cerebral malaria. His wife Mrs Hilda Barker of Honister, , Bradley Lane, Eccleston has been officially informed.
L/Cpl Barker who was 35, joined the Army in 1943. A builder by trade, he served as a special constable during the early part of the war. He was a member of the Eccleston Methodist Church and Sunday School. |
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