Following the First World War, Baker was approached to assist in the design of suitable monuments to the efforts of British Commonwealth soldiers.
Queen Victoria, who made her favourite home at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, commanded that a suitable monument be erected to her memory.
It came, and he promised that if he ever became successful, he would make sure he would build a suitable monument.
In October 1920 the church council of the local N.H. Kerk congregation restored his grave and erected a suitable monument upon it.
At the time the description is compiled, it may have been marked on the ground with permanent monuments placed where there were no suitable natural monuments.
On June 17, 1777, Congress voted that a suitable monument should be erected in his memory, but measures were never inaugurated to execute the resolution.
Unsuccessful attempts were made by various groups and individuals to erect a more suitable monument at Mountain Meadows but no one assumed maintenance responsibility.
Blakiston began the task of identifying a suitable monument to the dead; it was his suggestion, a new library, which carried the day.
In 1897 a suitable monument was erected to his memory by his friends, and dedicated (25 March).