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Personal info

Full name
BAKER, Lee
Date of birth
5 July 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Berwind, McDowell County, West Virginia
Hometown
Cucumber, McDowell County, West Virginia

Military service

Service number
35441853
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
328th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
26 November 1944
Place of death
Near Altwiller, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 26 33

Immediate family

Members
Alex Baker (father)
Mary B. (Taylor) Baker (mother)
Dimmon Baker (brother)
Alex Baker Jr. (brother)
Vicie Baker (sister)
Rilda J. Baker (sister)
George A. Baker (brother)
Pearl M. Baker (sister)
Wade R. Baker (brother)
Dan N. Baker (brother)
Marybelle Baker (sister)
James L. Baker (brother)
Clarence B. Baker (brother)
Thurman F. Baker (brother)
Harold W. Baker (brother)

More information

Sgt Lee Baker was a miner at the New River and Pocahontas Consol Coal Company before he enlisted in Huntington, West Virginia on 19 August 1942.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his chest.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Limey, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Stumph Family Tree / 1940 Census / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com - MAJ Jimmy Cotton, After Action Report 26th Infantry
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy