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February 1942 was spent re-equipping and training, the Battalion regaining its vitality. Read the war diary for February 1942 here
Jack Baker, MC and bar
Major Jack Baker MC and bar, Mentioned in Dispatches – 'a Tiger tank, a bazooka and a grenade earned him his. He couldn't shake the army habit, went to Japan with J-Force and spent nine years in the regular Army.'
In Nga Tama Toa, p.337, historian Monty Soutar describes the action in which Baker earned a bar to his Military Cross (MC), clearing a path through a minefield in Italy.
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Image and caption from April 1984 The Battalion Remembers booklet, p. 30.Submitter:
Submitted by mbadmin on Thu, 18/06/2009 - 14:21. 
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