CAPTAIN TOM BAKER, of the 10th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, who was killed in action on July 1st 1916 at La Boisselle, was the third son of Mrs Baker of Oxford.  He was a Master at the school during the years 1910-1912, leaving Wolverhampton in the latter year to take up a Modern Language post at Hymer’s College, Hull.  During his stay at Wolverhampton he won much popularity by his enthusiasm for the school’s many activities and by his genial disposition.  So thorough and efficient did he prove himself as a Schoolmaster, that it has never surprised us to hear that he displayed exactly the same qualities as an Officer.  In the early days of the School Corps he gained a commission under Captain Wyatt-Edgell, and continued his work as an O.T.C Officer while he was at Hull where he was in command of the College Corps, until he gained a commission in the Lincolnshire Regiment in September 1914.  We hear that on the cross over his grave at La Boisselle are inscribed the words “Res non Verba”.  His Colonel writes of him as follows:  “He was the best type of British Officer, his first thoughts always being for his men; they thought all the world of him.  Intensely keen in all his work and a true soldier by instinct, a successful career in the profession of arms was assured to him”.  His second in command says “The tighter the corner our company is in, the more we miss the able leadership and guidance of one who was loved and looked up to by us all”.