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Age-24

Born-Deptford

Before the war the Steam Ship Anglia was used on the Dublin-Holyhead ferry route but in 1914 she was requisitioned by the government and used as a hospital ship, bringing back wounded and sick men from France to England. Whilst on such a voyage on 17th November, 1915 she hit a mine laid by the German submarine UC-5 when just off the coast near Folkestone. Within fifteen minutes the ship sank and 164 people had died including crew, medical staff and patients. Charles Baker was one who did not survive the voyage. He was serving with Army Service Corps attached to the 14th Division which had arrived in France in May 1915 and had seen action on the Western Front since that date.