Signal Corps Crossed
            FlagsPFC William Kirk BaynardSignal Corps Plaque
Signal Hq. & Hq. Company (Air Warning Signal)

Headstone
June 9
, 1917 - March 12, 1943

Campaigns: Philippine Islands

Awards: Prisoner of War and Purple Heart

1940

October 16: Registered for the draft

1941

February 24: Enlisted

Undated: 1941 or 1942: Deployed to the Philippines, Signal Hq. & Hq. Company (Air Warning Signal)

1942

April 9: Members captured when Bataan surrender

July 6: Death March to Camp O'Donnell.

Unknown date;Transferred to POW camp at Osaka POW Camp/Yodogawa Dispatch Camp

December 30 Vitamin B1 injection

1943

January:

1: Sick Bay

2. Light Duty

6: Duty


14-17: Cod liver oil.

25-31: Vitamin B1 injections

February

1-9:
Vitamin B1 injection

12: Yeast

March

7: Hospitalized

12: Ate of bowl of rice; died of beri beri and heart failure.
Pfc Baynard is the first name.

Entries from Dr. Richardson's diary about Pfc. Baynard

Memorial in Dover, Delaware.
Pfc Baynard is the first name.

Headstone in the Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery Dover, Kent County, Delaware


All material not in the public domain Copyright2022 Leonard H. Cizewski

Last Major Update: November , 2022
Minor Revision:
Posted: November 21, 2022
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Acknowledgements:

Lowell Silverman of Delaware's World War II Fallen contributed research and Govan Yee