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PRIVATE
JOHN BENJAMIN H. BAKER had lived with his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Keese,
at 1004 Spruce
Street, in Camden NJ. He was drafted June 28, 1918 and
was sent to Camp Dix. He went overseas on August 26, 1918, where he was
assigned to the Medical Detachment of the 312th Field Signal
Battalion. Private
Baker was wounded while carrying other casualties off of the field of
battle. He died of blood poisoning at Base Hospital No. 35 in France on
September 17, 1918. He was survived by his mother and his stepfather,
Henry O. Keese, and a step-brother, Henry O. Keese Jr. The Keese family
was still living at the Spruce
Street address well into the 1930s. |
