Major Harold F. Baker
21st Armoured Regiment (The Governor General’s Foot Guards)

The real sad thing was that I lost all my good friends back there and after working with them for nearly five years, it was tough.

(Baker to father, letter 1944)

Born on 10 November 1904 in Casselman, Ontario, Harold Foster Baker was a graduate of Queen’s University and car dealer. A prewar officer in the Lanark and Renfrew Scottish Regiment, he transferred to the Governor General’s Foot Guards with a promotion to major following unit mobilization in 1940. Overseas, he became second-in-command of the re-designated 21st Armoured Regiment, which had embarked for the United Kingdom in September 1942.

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