DEATH OF A VETERAN.
The Usual End. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION".] New Plymouth, This day. There died in the Old Men's Home here last night William Baker, aged 95. He was a member of the crew of H.M.S. Asia at the battle of Navarino, and was also in the battle of St. Vincent. H> took part, in the first China war in 1840-2. He then came to Wellington in the ship Hazard, and volunteered for the forlorn hope at Owaiwai, under Captain Philpott. Baker was wounded, and left the service at the end of 1845, having served 26 years under four sovereigns. During the Maori war in Taranaki he served in the Militia.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9940, 11 December 1900, Page 5
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