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Personal info

Full name
BAKER, Woodrow Wilson
Date of birth
9 September 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Ellenburg Depot, Clinton County, New York
Hometown
Ellenburg, Clinton County, New York

Military service

Service number
32947248
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
15th Infantry Regiment,
3rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
12 October 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of La Forge – Tendon, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 35 6

Immediate family

Members
Benjamin S. Baker (father)
Bessie M. Baker (mother)
Pearl Baker (sister)
Gerald A. Baker (brother)
Howard T. Baker (brother)
Stanley S. Baker (brother)
Sarah L. (Lewis) Baker (wife)
Thomas Baker (son)
David Baker (son)

More information

Pvt Woodrow W. Baker had a post graduate degree from SUNY (State University of New York) and was a teacher employed by the Central District School in Ellenburg before he enlisted in Albany, New York on 6 November 1943.

Pvt Baker is remembered with a memorial marker at Sheldon Hill Cemetery in Ellenburg Depot, Clinton County, New York.

Source of information: Leo Minne, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com – 1930/1940/1950 Census / Headstone and Interment / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men / US WW2 Hospital Admission Cards, History 3rd Infantry Division WWII
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, SUNY, 1936