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Baker, Donald Richard

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Title Lieutenant-Commander (RCN(R))
Official Number O-03780
 
Birth (nk) Death 27/12/2003
Place Charlottetown Place Kensington
Area PE Area ON
Country Canada Country Canada
 
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Military Service
He was appointed as a Sub-Lieutenant (Temp.) RCNVR. He served in HMCS Drummondville 1941. He was appointed as a Lieutenant (Temp.) RCNVR (With seniority dated 18/08/1942) (Later backdated to 1941). He served in HMCS Clayoquot (In command) 1944. He served in HMCS Nipigon (In command) 1944. He served in HMCS Frontenac (In command) 1945. (He was demobilized 22/09/1945.) He was appointed as a Lieutenant RCN(R) (With seniority dated 18/08/1941). He was appointed as an A/Lieutenant-Commander RCN(R) (WHA) 1946. He served in HMCS Queen as Commanding Officer 1946. (He was released.) (He was qualified with a Watchkeeping Certificate.)
 
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Mention in Despatches "This Officer has served for the last three and a half years of war in Coastal escort work on the Eastern Canadian Seaboard under trying and arduous conditions. By his zeal, cheerfulness and wholehearted devotion to duty, he has set a fine example and has been an inspiration to those working under him." (Awarded as per Canada Gazette of 16 June 1945 and London Gazette of 14 June 1945.)
 
References
Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON; http://www.rcnvr.com/B%20-%20RCN%20-%20WW2.php; https://www.blatherwick.net/documents/Royal%20Canadian%20Navy%20Citations/B%20-%20RCN%20-%20WW2.pdf;
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