William Baker (Indian Army officer)

Lieutenant-General Sir William Henry Goldney Baker KCIE, CB, DSO, OBE (1888-1964) was a British officer who served in the Indian Army.

Military career
Baker was commissioned the unattached list of the Indian Army in 1909 and posted to the 31st Lancers in 1910. He served in World War I and then in the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919. He became commanding officer of Probyn's Horse in 1935 and took part in operations in Waziristan in 1936. He became Commander of the Delhi Brigade Area in 1938. He served in World War II as Director of Organization at Army Headquarters, India from 1940 and as Adjutant-General, India from 1941 before retiring in 1944.