Service No: C/JX 172090
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy, H.M.S. Firedrake
Son of James and Agnes Baker; husband of Joan Veronica Baker, of Leicester.
SON OF LOCAL MAN REPORTED LOST, DEC. 17
James Baker, 274 South Prairie Street, has received word that his son, Alexander, age 22, a radio operator on a British destroyer, is reported missing during action occurring December 17.
Details in the case have not been received by Mr. Baker with the information he acquired having been cabled by the young man's wife, Joan, from her home in Leicester, England. The message said "Regret Alex is missing. Presumed killed December 17. Broken hearted" and was signed "Joan Baker."
The young man, a radio operator in the British navy, was conscripted in 1940. He never resided in the United States, but on one occasion since the war started his boat docked at New York and three months ago when at a Canadian port he called his father here by telephone.
A brother, PFC James G. Baker, whose home was in Galesburg five or six years before his entrance in the army about two years ago, has been located in the Hawaiian Islands the last year.
Galesburg Register-Mail: December 30, 1942
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy, H.M.S. Firedrake
Son of James and Agnes Baker; husband of Joan Veronica Baker, of Leicester.
SON OF LOCAL MAN REPORTED LOST, DEC. 17
James Baker, 274 South Prairie Street, has received word that his son, Alexander, age 22, a radio operator on a British destroyer, is reported missing during action occurring December 17.
Details in the case have not been received by Mr. Baker with the information he acquired having been cabled by the young man's wife, Joan, from her home in Leicester, England. The message said "Regret Alex is missing. Presumed killed December 17. Broken hearted" and was signed "Joan Baker."
The young man, a radio operator in the British navy, was conscripted in 1940. He never resided in the United States, but on one occasion since the war started his boat docked at New York and three months ago when at a Canadian port he called his father here by telephone.
A brother, PFC James G. Baker, whose home was in Galesburg five or six years before his entrance in the army about two years ago, has been located in the Hawaiian Islands the last year.
Galesburg Register-Mail: December 30, 1942
Service No: C/JX 172090
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy, H.M.S. Firedrake
Son of James and Agnes Baker; husband of Joan Veronica Baker, of Leicester.
SON OF LOCAL MAN REPORTED LOST, DEC. 17
James Baker, 274 South Prairie Street, has received word that his son, Alexander, age 22, a radio operator on a British destroyer, is reported missing during action occurring December 17.
Details in the case have not been received by Mr. Baker with the information he acquired having been cabled by the young man's wife, Joan, from her home in Leicester, England. The message said "Regret Alex is missing. Presumed killed December 17. Broken hearted" and was signed "Joan Baker."
The young man, a radio operator in the British navy, was conscripted in 1940. He never resided in the United States, but on one occasion since the war started his boat docked at New York and three months ago when at a Canadian port he called his father here by telephone.
A brother, PFC James G. Baker, whose home was in Galesburg five or six years before his entrance in the army about two years ago, has been located in the Hawaiian Islands the last year.
Galesburg Register-Mail: December 30, 1942
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy, H.M.S. Firedrake
Son of James and Agnes Baker; husband of Joan Veronica Baker, of Leicester.
SON OF LOCAL MAN REPORTED LOST, DEC. 17
James Baker, 274 South Prairie Street, has received word that his son, Alexander, age 22, a radio operator on a British destroyer, is reported missing during action occurring December 17.
Details in the case have not been received by Mr. Baker with the information he acquired having been cabled by the young man's wife, Joan, from her home in Leicester, England. The message said "Regret Alex is missing. Presumed killed December 17. Broken hearted" and was signed "Joan Baker."
The young man, a radio operator in the British navy, was conscripted in 1940. He never resided in the United States, but on one occasion since the war started his boat docked at New York and three months ago when at a Canadian port he called his father here by telephone.
A brother, PFC James G. Baker, whose home was in Galesburg five or six years before his entrance in the army about two years ago, has been located in the Hawaiian Islands the last year.
Galesburg Register-Mail: December 30, 1942
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