Frederick Garfield Baker

World War I
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Fallen

County:
Bottineau

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Battery E, 18th Field Artillery

Circumstances:

Accidentally killed at Palch, Germany, June 14, 1919.

Buried at Marn, Germany. Remains returned to U. S. Oct. 4, 1920, and buried in Grave 656, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.

Name NOT included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Information found in Volume 1, page 150 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered Bottineau county. Born, Geneva, Ind., Sept. 8, 1886, of American parents. Occupation - farmer. Inducted at Bottineau on Sept. 18, 1917. Sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa. Served in Battery C, 338th Field Artillery, to Nov. 30, 1917; Battery E, 335th Field Artillery, to June 11, 1918; Company No. 4, Camp Pike June Replacement Draft, to July 15, 1918; Battery E, 18th Field Artillery, to death. Overseas from June 20, 1918, to death. Engagements: Offensives: Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Defensive: Champagne-Marne. Defensive Sector: Vesle (Champagne).