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Personal info

Full name
BAKER, Robert Leslie
Date of birth
27 March 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
Broadway, Union County, Ohio
Hometown
Marion, Marion County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35225726
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
168th Engineer Combat Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Finding of Death
Date of death
15 January 1945
Place of death
Verviers, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
D 15 19

Immediate family

Members
Jesse O. Baker (father)
Essie R. (Von Derau) Baker (mother)
Jean Baker (sister)
Wilton C. Baker (brother)
Barbara Baker (sister)
Helen F. (Humes) Baker (wife)
Joyce A. Baker (daughter)
Robert W. Baker (son)

More information

Pfc Robert L. Baker was employed at the Marion Steam Shovel Company before he enlisted in Columbus, Ohio on 5 August 1943.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Trefla Family Tree / 1930 Census, www.findagrave.com - MAJ Jimmy Cotton, www.newspapers.com - Marysville Journal Tribune - 28 December 1945
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