Background
Harry Frederick Baker was born 29 July 1904 in Glanville, Portuguese Adelaide, Australia, to Frederick George Baker, a Western Australian labourer and Evelyn May (née Smith).
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He was educated at Maylands State School and Perth Technical School.
Career
He is credited as being the first Western Australian motorcycle rider to reach a 94.73 miles per hour (mph). Thereafter, his family relocated to Perth, Australia. Passionate in speedway riding from the age of 18, Baker was nicknamed "Cannonball".
Baker was one of Sir Norman Brearley"s first proteges at the Perth Flying School.
After completing an aviation course and qualifying as an aviation instructor, Baker established his own business. Baker suffered a stroke circa the 1970s.
He spent his final years in a nursing house in Como, Perth and died of natural causes on 8 June 1986. He was buried in a cemetery in Karrakatta.
