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Personal info

Full name
BAKER, Ferrell Athea
Date of birth
14 May 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Virgil City, Cedar County, Missouri
Hometown
Cedar County, Missouri

Military service

Service number
37242449
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
53rd Armored Infantry Battalion,
4th Armored Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
21 February 1945
Place of death
In area of Roth, Obersgegen or Gentingen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Noah T. Baker (father)
Mittie O. (Begley) Baker (mother)
Dixie J. Baker (sister)
Patsy L. Baker (sister)
Telmo Baker (brother)

More information

Pfc Ferrell A. Baker attended high school for two years.

He entered the Regular Army on 23 September 1940 at Camp Clark, in Nevada, Missouri.

Pfc Baker is remembered at White Hall Cemetery in El Dorado Springs, Cedar County, Missouri with a memorial marker.

Source of information: André Koch, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / Shook, Thorpe Family Tree / WWII Draft Card, http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll8/id/3772 - After action report 53rd Armored Infantry Battalion July 44 thru May 1945

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, J. Jennings