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Flight Sergeant Edgar Francis Baker

image: AWM2016.487.1.55.2 image: AWM2016.487.1.55.2
Photograph AWM2016.487.1.55.2
Service number 403249
Birth Date 14/05/1917
Birth Place Australia: New South Wales, Dubbo
Death Date 23/07/1943
Death Place Off: Off Crete, Greece
Final Rank Flight Sergeant
Service Royal Australian Air Force
Unit No. 454 Squadron
Places
  • Dubbo
  • Off Crete, Greece
  • Sydney
Conflict/Operation Second World War, 1939-1945

Collection items

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    Informal outdoor portrait of 403249 Flight Sergeant Edgar Francis Baker, 454 Squadron, Royal ...

    Informal outdoor portrait of 403249 Flight Sergeant Edgar Francis Baker, 454 Squadron, Royal ...

Rolls

  • Roll of Honour:

    Unit
    No. 454 Squadron
    Conflict
    Second World War, 1939-1945
    Rank
    Flight Sergeant

Timeline

Date of birth 14/05/1917
Date of death 23/07/1943

Related information

Conflicts

  • Second World War, 1939-1945

Units

  • No. 454 Squadron
  • Royal Australian Air Force

Places

  • Dubbo
  • Off Crete, Greece
  • Sydney

Objects

  • AWM2016.489.2
  • AWM2016.489.2

Related Objects

  • 426 black and white prints in a large red leather album relating to the service of 403249 Flight ...
  • 426 black and white prints in a large red leather album relating to the service of 403249 Flight ...
  • Informal outdoor portrait of 403249 Flight Sergeant Edgar Francis Baker, 454 Squadron, Royal ...
  • Informal outdoor portrait of 403249 Flight Sergeant Edgar Francis Baker, 454 Squadron, Royal ...
  • Baker, Edgar Francis (Flight Sergeant, b.1917 - d.1943)
  • Baker, Edgar Francis (Flight Sergeant, b.1917 - d.1943)
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