Three medals to Corporal William Baker

Three medals to Corporal William Baker, Imperial Yeomanry and Army Service Corps: Queen's South Africa, 2nd type reverse, 5 clasps: Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (34447 PTE W. BAKER. 95TH COY IMP: YEO:), impressed; British War Medal 1914-20, Victory Medal (M2 - 131997 A. CPL. W. BAKER. A.S.C.), all good very fine or better. [3]

William Baker was born St Martins, London, in 1872, and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry in March 1901, having previously served in the 3rd Volunteer Battalion Royal Fusiliers. He served with the 95th Company (Metropolitan Mounted Rifles), and was discharged at Shorncliffe, as medically unfit, in April 1902. He married Myra Emma, a widow, in 1906, and together they had two children. He re-enlisted in the Army Service Corps in October 1915.