| 词条 | George Harold Baker |
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| smallimage =GeorgeHaroldBaker.jpg | cabinet = | term_start = September 21, 1911 | term_end = June 2, 1916 | predecessor =Sydney A. Fisher | successor =Andrew Ross McMaster | birth_date = {{birth date|1877|11|04}} | birth_place =Sweetsburg, Quebec, Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|1916|06|02|1877|11|04}} | death_place =Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium | party =Conservative | party colour = | riding =Brome | portfolio = | footnotes = | portfolio 2 = | term_start2= | term_end2= | predecessor2= | successor2= | spouse= | relations = George Barnard Baker, father | children = | residence = | alma_mater = McGill University | occupation = | profession = Lawyer, soldier | religion = | nickname = | allegiance = {{flag|Canada|1868}} | branch = Canadian Army | serviceyears = 1903 - 1916 | rank = Lieutenant Colonel | unit = 6th Hussars 13th Scottish Light Dragoons 5th Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles, CEF | battles = World War I | mawards = }} George Harold Baker (November 4, 1877 – June 2, 1916) was a lawyer, political figure, and soldier from Quebec, Canada. He represented Brome in the House of Commons of Canada from 1911 to 1916 as a Conservative Member of Parliament. He is the only sitting Canadian MP to be killed in action on military service. Early lifeHe was born in Sweetsburg, Quebec, the son of George Barnard Baker, a Member of Parliament and Senator. Prior to the First World War, Baker served as a member of the 6th Hussars and the 13th Scottish Light Dragoons. Political careerBaker was elected as the Member of Parliament for Brome in the 1911 federal election, representing the Conservative Party. {{Canadian election result/top|CA|1911}}{{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|George Harold Baker |1,520}}{{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Sydney Arthur Fisher |1,496}}{{end}}First World WarBaker fought in World War I as a Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles. He was killed in action at Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium on June 2, 1916, during the Battle of Mount Sorrel. Baker was carried out of the action by his second-in-command Major Dennis Draper.[1] He was buried at Poperinghe New Military Cemetery, where his gravestone bears the inscription: DEATH IS A LOW MIST WHICH CANNOT BLOT THE BRIGHTNESS IT MAY VEIL.[2][3] Baker's life and death were commemorated by the publication of A Canadian Soldier (1917).[1][4] A memorial service was held at Christ Church in Sweetsburg, Quebec, on June 18, 1916. Tributes were paid by the Reverend W. P. R. Lewis and General Sir Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia. Baker's death was also marked by the Prime Minister of Canada Sir Robert Borden, with a statement published in the press and a further tribute given at the opening of parliament on January 18, 1917.[1] A bronze memorial statue to Baker by R. Tait McKenzie was unveiled on February 29, 1924 by Governor General Lord Byng in the House of Commons foyer in the Centre Block building of the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa, Canada.[5] The Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon MacKenzie King spoke at the unveiling, and his speech and those of others were recorded in the red leather-bound commemorative volume Parliamentary Memoir of George Harold Baker, M.P. (1924). This volume also included a funerary poem for Baker: "Non Mortuus".[6] The base of the memorial statue bears the following inscription: Either side of the recess holding the memorial statue, there are inscriptions on the walls. The inscription to the left is a biblical quote (2 Maccabees 6.31)[8][9] and the inscription to the right is the final five lines of the poem "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae.[6][10] References1. ^1 2 {{cite book|last=Cunliffe|first=John William|title=A Canadian Soldier|publisher=University Printing Office, Columbia University|date=1917|location=New York|page=67|url=https://archive.org/details/canadiansoldierg00bake|format=pdf}} 2. ^This epitaph is a quote from Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonaïs (1821), an elegy for John Keats. 3. ^{{CWGC|id=139023|name=Baker, George Harold|access-date=25 January 2018}} 4. ^This work was written by John William Cunliffe (1865–1946) of Columbia University, New York, USA. The memorial volume contains a brief biography, several pages of letters written by Baker and others in the war, some photographs, contemporary newspaper reports and official accounts of the battle in which Baker died, and reports of tributes paid to Baker. 5. ^{{cite web|title=The Baker Memorial|last=Monaghan|first=David|date=October 2012|publisher=Parliament of Canada|url=https://www.ourcommons.ca/About/HistoryArtsArchitecture/collection_profiles/CP_Baker-e.htm|access-date=22 January 2018}} 6. ^1 {{cite journal|last=Bentley|first=D. M. R.|title=Monumentalités|date=Spring–Summer 1993|volume=32|journal=Canadian Poetry|publisher=Canadian Poetry Press|url=http://canadianpoetry.org/volumes/vol32/preface.html}} 7. ^{{cite web|title=Lieutenant-Colonel George Harold Baker|publisher=Parliament of Canada|url=https://www.ourcommons.ca/About/HistoryArtsArchitecture/fine_arts/sculpture/865-e.htm|access-date=25 January 2018}} 8. ^The Maccabees inscription uses the wording from the King James Version of the bible: AND THUS THIS MAN DIED LEAVING HIS DEATH FOR AN EXAMPLE OF A NOBLE COURAGE AND A MEMORIAL OF VIRTUE NOT ONLY UNTO YOUNG MEN BUT UNTO ALL HIS NATION. 9. ^{{cite web|title=2 Maccabees 6:31|publisher=King James Bible Online|url=https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/2-Maccabees-6-31/|access-date=25 January 2018}} 10. ^The McCrae inscription is as follows: TO YOU FROM FAILING HANDS WE THROW THE TORCH BE YOURS TO HOLD IT HIGH IF YE BREAK FAITH WITH US WHO DIE WE SHALL NOT SLEEP THOUGH POPPIES BLOW IN FLANDERS FIELDS. 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