Drummer Rowland James Baker, 1392
- Batt - 8
- Unit - Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters)
- Section -
- Date of Birth - 1892
- Died - 28/09/1914
- Age - 22
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ContributeSource: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland. He was the son of John Baker an Engineer Fitter, born 1857 in Willenhall, Staffordshire and his wife Elizabeth, born 1861 in Loughborough, Leicestershire. Rowland James was a Brewers Labourer and was born in 1892 in Leicester, he had one sibling, a brother Peter, born 1894 in Leicester. In April 1911 the family home was at 49, Albert Street, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Leicestershire Project Findings
- Conflict - World War I
- Burial Place - M C C 299, Newark-upon-trent Cemetery
- Other Memorials - Loughborough Baptist Church, Loughborough Carillon, War Memorial Bell Tower
Research from Michael Doyle's Their Name Liveth For Evermore
- Unit - Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters)
- Cause of death - DIED
- Burial Commemoration - Newark upon Trent Cem., Nottingham, England
- Born - Leicester
- Enlisted - Loughborough, Leicestershire
- Place of Residence - 49 Albert Street, Newark Upon Trent, Nottinghamshire, England
- Memorial - CARILLON TOWER MEM., LOUGHBOROUGH, LEICS
- Memorial - BAXTERGATE BAPTIST CHAPEL, LOUGHBOROUGH, LEICESTERSHIRE
