Died of complications of a Tropical Ulcer at the 80 KILO camp, Burma while a POW working on the Thai-Burma Railway
Thank you to Eric Ackerman for the following information:
WICHITA DAILY TIMES, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1945, FRONT PAGE
LOST BATTALION MEMBER DIES IN JAP PRISON CAMP
Word of the death of Pfc. Bill R. Baxter in a Japanese prison camp in Thailand, Sept. 13, 1943, was received Tuesday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Baxter, 706 Broad.
The soldier was a member of the little band composed mostly of Wichitans which as a field artillery unit fell to the Japs early in 1942 as the Nips drove forward in Java.
The telegram received by Mr. and Mrs. Baxter was from the war department, which related the information received through the International Red Cross frmo the Japanese government.
Four other messages bringing news that four other members of the 131st Field Artillery were in good health in Japanese prison camps also had been received in Wichita Falls Tuesday. These messages concerned Pvt. Wilson G. Reed Jr., Lt. Clyde C. Fillmore, Major Winthrop H. Rogers and Pfc. Richard R. May.
It was more than three months after the death of Private Baxter that his parents had received their first message from him since his capture. The message, arriving in December, 1943, said he was in good health and was with friends.
Survivors of the soldier besides his parents, include three brothers, Bernard Baxter of Wichita Falls, Marine Pfc. Guy Baxter now on Guam and Army Cpl. Jack Baxter, with the air forces in England.
Baxter had been in the national guard for three and a half years before his unit was joined with the army. He had graduated from Wichita Falls High School in 1939 and was 22 at the time of his death.
He was a member of the Highland Heights Christian Church and was active in the young people's organizations of that institution.
Thank you to Eric Ackerman for the following information:
WICHITA DAILY TIMES, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1945, FRONT PAGE
LOST BATTALION MEMBER DIES IN JAP PRISON CAMP
Word of the death of Pfc. Bill R. Baxter in a Japanese prison camp in Thailand, Sept. 13, 1943, was received Tuesday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Baxter, 706 Broad.
The soldier was a member of the little band composed mostly of Wichitans which as a field artillery unit fell to the Japs early in 1942 as the Nips drove forward in Java.
The telegram received by Mr. and Mrs. Baxter was from the war department, which related the information received through the International Red Cross frmo the Japanese government.
Four other messages bringing news that four other members of the 131st Field Artillery were in good health in Japanese prison camps also had been received in Wichita Falls Tuesday. These messages concerned Pvt. Wilson G. Reed Jr., Lt. Clyde C. Fillmore, Major Winthrop H. Rogers and Pfc. Richard R. May.
It was more than three months after the death of Private Baxter that his parents had received their first message from him since his capture. The message, arriving in December, 1943, said he was in good health and was with friends.
Survivors of the soldier besides his parents, include three brothers, Bernard Baxter of Wichita Falls, Marine Pfc. Guy Baxter now on Guam and Army Cpl. Jack Baxter, with the air forces in England.
Baxter had been in the national guard for three and a half years before his unit was joined with the army. He had graduated from Wichita Falls High School in 1939 and was 22 at the time of his death.
He was a member of the Highland Heights Christian Church and was active in the young people's organizations of that institution.
Died of complications of a Tropical Ulcer at the 80 KILO camp, Burma while a POW working on the Thai-Burma Railway
Thank you to Eric Ackerman for the following information:
WICHITA DAILY TIMES, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1945, FRONT PAGE
LOST BATTALION MEMBER DIES IN JAP PRISON CAMP
Word of the death of Pfc. Bill R. Baxter in a Japanese prison camp in Thailand, Sept. 13, 1943, was received Tuesday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Baxter, 706 Broad.
The soldier was a member of the little band composed mostly of Wichitans which as a field artillery unit fell to the Japs early in 1942 as the Nips drove forward in Java.
The telegram received by Mr. and Mrs. Baxter was from the war department, which related the information received through the International Red Cross frmo the Japanese government.
Four other messages bringing news that four other members of the 131st Field Artillery were in good health in Japanese prison camps also had been received in Wichita Falls Tuesday. These messages concerned Pvt. Wilson G. Reed Jr., Lt. Clyde C. Fillmore, Major Winthrop H. Rogers and Pfc. Richard R. May.
It was more than three months after the death of Private Baxter that his parents had received their first message from him since his capture. The message, arriving in December, 1943, said he was in good health and was with friends.
Survivors of the soldier besides his parents, include three brothers, Bernard Baxter of Wichita Falls, Marine Pfc. Guy Baxter now on Guam and Army Cpl. Jack Baxter, with the air forces in England.
Baxter had been in the national guard for three and a half years before his unit was joined with the army. He had graduated from Wichita Falls High School in 1939 and was 22 at the time of his death.
He was a member of the Highland Heights Christian Church and was active in the young people's organizations of that institution.
Thank you to Eric Ackerman for the following information:
WICHITA DAILY TIMES, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1945, FRONT PAGE
LOST BATTALION MEMBER DIES IN JAP PRISON CAMP
Word of the death of Pfc. Bill R. Baxter in a Japanese prison camp in Thailand, Sept. 13, 1943, was received Tuesday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Baxter, 706 Broad.
The soldier was a member of the little band composed mostly of Wichitans which as a field artillery unit fell to the Japs early in 1942 as the Nips drove forward in Java.
The telegram received by Mr. and Mrs. Baxter was from the war department, which related the information received through the International Red Cross frmo the Japanese government.
Four other messages bringing news that four other members of the 131st Field Artillery were in good health in Japanese prison camps also had been received in Wichita Falls Tuesday. These messages concerned Pvt. Wilson G. Reed Jr., Lt. Clyde C. Fillmore, Major Winthrop H. Rogers and Pfc. Richard R. May.
It was more than three months after the death of Private Baxter that his parents had received their first message from him since his capture. The message, arriving in December, 1943, said he was in good health and was with friends.
Survivors of the soldier besides his parents, include three brothers, Bernard Baxter of Wichita Falls, Marine Pfc. Guy Baxter now on Guam and Army Cpl. Jack Baxter, with the air forces in England.
Baxter had been in the national guard for three and a half years before his unit was joined with the army. He had graduated from Wichita Falls High School in 1939 and was 22 at the time of his death.
He was a member of the Highland Heights Christian Church and was active in the young people's organizations of that institution.
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1940 United States Federal Census
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1930 United States Federal Census
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U.S., World War II and Korean Conflict Veterans Interred Overseas
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U.S., National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962
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Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S., National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (Punchbowl), 1941-2011
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