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Personal info

Full name
BAKER, Robert Livingston
Date of birth
2 December 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey
Hometown
Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
42006303
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
414th Infantry Regiment,
104th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
28 February 1945
Place of death
Sindorf, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
D 16 23

Immediate family

Members
Clifford M. Baker (father)
Margaret D. Baker (mother)
John D. Baker (brother)
Clifford M. Baker (brother)
Catherine Baker (sister)

More information

Sgt Robert L. Baker graduated from Hotchkiss High School and attended Wardlaw School.

He enlisted in Newark, New Jersey on 27 July 1943 and received his basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia. He was an ASTP student at Princeton University for three months and when this project was disbanded het was stationed at Camp Carson, Colorado before he was sent overseas. He arrived in France on 5 September 1944.

His brother Clifford served in the U.S. Navy Reserve.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment
Record, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / 1930 census

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, newspaper clipping