Looking for child of American pilot William Baker. Would have been born 1944/5.

[groom]

  He was based at Tarrant Rushton in Dorset from Feb 1944 to about April 1944
Then Keevil in Wiltshire to August 1944
Then Harwell Oxfordshire from August until the time of his death in September 1944
He was killed at Arnhem in September 1944 and a St Christopher Medallion was found at the aircraft crash inscribed "With Love, Peggy"   - so she was still very much in his mind in Sept 1944.

So we need to know where he was based before he started operations, as he is more likely to have had time to meet a local girl while training.

I still think that given the very limited information this will be very difficult.

[MargP]

Hi brook

Have you got William's War Record, to see where he was based at the time of his arrival

Margp

[MargP]

Hi

Here is the link for the details of William's War Records, that's if you don't already have them

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/second-world-war/second-world-war-dead-1939-1947/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=1392&

Margp

[polarbear]

Here is some info about how to order his complete military file....I don't know whether these files are part of a digitization project. You never know what info might turn up in the file.

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/second-world-war/second-world-war-dead-1939-1947/Pages/files-second-war-dead.aspx#e

PB

[groom]

Will there be a record for him as it says?

Related Pdf file(s)
0 pdf file(s) found for item "1392".

Does that mean his record is either missing or not been transcribed?

[polarbear]

I think it means it has not been transcribed, as in digitized. I believe files become Pdf ones when they are digitized. The file should be available to order. If not, LAC would let one know at that time, I would assume.

PB

Edited to add...here is a link with a bit more general info about the files...

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/second-world-war/second-world-war-dead-1939-1947/Pages/files-second-war-dead.aspx

[ScouseBoy]

While admiring your good intentions and tenacity,           There are so many seemingly insurmountable hurdles for you to overcome, don't you think?

After the passage of 70 years, and with so little basic facts to go on,  I cannot see that you will get much further forward, Sorry.

[groom]

Unfortunately, I think that ScouseBoy may be correct.

I understand from your other thread that "William Baker was the pilot of my uncles Stirling aircraft" so isn't actually related to you. Has his sister in America asked you to find this child?

[MargP]

I agree, but it is worth ago, we have a short time frame of when the child was born, and if we can get an area where he was, we can then look at children born out of wedlock.

Margp