Dear Alastair,
As for 'Ed Baker' see some information in Pinney's 'Letters' 1911-19, pp.432 & 567.
https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=qC9wJMG0OBwC&pg=PA432&lpg=PA432&dq=ed+baker+kipling+1918&source=bl&ots=eGUt6QQXTF&sig=evKH8k_pgkZSTlkwqg3tNhrcVOM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAGoVChMI59_j-_H0yAIVRHdyCh3_9gVL#v=onepage&q=ed%20baker&f=false
A> In the 'Annual Summary for 1918', after the Rees Extracts for that year,
A> Douglas Rees recorded that Kipling "wrote a great number of assorted
A> verses - /'The Lathes/'//(munition workers), /'Lyde' /(?), /'Ed Baker',
A> 'Justice' /and /'Peace Proposals' /among others."
A> Does anyone know what /Ed Baker/ and /Peace Proposals/ were, please? /Ed
A> Baker /is mentioned on 21 June 1918 ("Much about a poem called Ed.
A> Baker?") - which suggests that Rees didn't know what it was either -
A> while /'Proposals for Peace'/ does not appear in the Extracts at all.
A> And I can't recognise either in Professor Pinney's *Poems*.
A> /Alastair Wilson/
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