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Name: George Charles Baker Rank: Petty Officer Shipwright Listing: Survivor
George Baker, third from left I am grateful to George Baker's niece, Cherie McLean, for the picture above and for sending me the following e-mail in December 2004:
I have been doing my family history, on my
mothers side, and my uncle George Charles Baker was Petty Officer/Shipwright
on the Dunedin when she was torpedoed. Luckily for him, he had a toothache and
was having a hot cuppa to help sooth the pain. He went up on deck after
leaving the area, the officers mess I think, to cool his drink. Then just
moments later the torpedo hit. He was in a raft for a few days without food or
drink when he was picked up. He was then taken to Gibraltar, where my grandad,
Uncle George's dad, George Baker a stoker from HMS Diadem had also survived a
torpedo attack. The doctors thought it quite funny when they realised they had
2 George Bakers in the ward on the same day, and to top it off, another uncle,
John Baker, arrived on the ward to start work on the same day. This is the
story as we know it.
Below: two more pictures sent by Cherie McLean in April 2008
George Baker, back row, far right
George Baker, back row, third from right |
