John Henry Baker

A Seaman with H.M.S. Coventry City. John died on 29th of January 1945 at the age of 23. 

John was born at Lowestoft on 14 June 1921, a son of John Herbert and Ellen Gertrude Baker. He was baptised at Saint John's Church, Lowestoft, on 1 July 1921 and his family lived at 7 Union Place and this was still their address in 1939.

From late 1942 until the end of the war the anti-submarine trawler Coventry City was based in South Africa. On 29 January 1945 John was found drowned in the harbour at Port Elizabeth, South Africa.