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Cpl Edward Benjamin Baker
British Army Dorsetshire Regiment
from:London
My Dad, Edward Baker was called up in 1939 and demobbed from BOAR in 1946.
During the Blitz dad and his mates scrumped apples from an orchard and caught a rabbit on their way to London with a convoy. He was offloaded in Gibraltar from a troopship to Malta with yellow jaundice and broke his little finger driving a three tonner across a pontoon on the Rhine. He missed a rocket bomb in Brussels and that is all that we know of his six years in the Dorsets.
We lived in a Regiment house with three other London families to avoid the rockets and watched the build up for Normandy. We could hear the sounds of battle on D-day. What more can you tell us, anybody?