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Baker, Graham McNaughton

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Title Sub-Lieutenant (RCNVR)
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Birth 00/00/1917 Death 28/03/1942
Place (nk) Place St. Nazaire
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Country (nk) Country France
 
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Honours M.I.D. (Posthumous).
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Military Service
He was appointed as an A/Sub-Lieutenant (Temp.) RCNVR (With seniority dated 30/03/1940). (Mobilized for World War Two service 30/03/1940) He served in HM ML-447 (In command) 1944. (He was killed in action 28/03/1942 during a raid on St. Nazaire France by shore fire. He was Mentioned in Despatches "For great bravery and unshaken devotion to duty in control of a gun in his motor launch, and afterward in trying to take a rope onto a jetty heavily enfiladed by intense enemy fire (during an attack on St. Nazaire)."
 
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Mention in Despatches (Posthumous) "For great bravery and unshaken devotion to duty in control of a gun in his motor launch, and afterward in trying to take a rope onto a jetty heavily enfiladed by intense enemy fire (during an attack on St. Nazaire)." (Awarded as per London Gazette of 21 May 1942 (no Canada Gazette))
 
References
Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON; http://www.rcnvr.com/B%20-%20RCN%20-%20WW2.php; http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RCNVR_officers.html; http://www.naval-history.net/; https://www.blatherwick.net/documents/Royal%20Canadian%20Navy%20Citations/B%20-%20RCN%20-%20WW2.pdf
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2011-02-06 00:00:00

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