Corp. Raymond Arthur Barker, USMC-- Part 1

From Find-A-Grave

CPL Raymond Arthur Barker

Born:  20 Dec. 1920, Delavan, Wis.
Death: 20 Nov. 1943, Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, Kiribati

Burial:  Spring Grove Cemetery, Delavan, Wis.  Lot B, Block 5, Section 0

A rather tall man at 6'4".

Corp. Ray Barker Killed in Action.

Delavan--  Corp. Raymond Barker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harley Barker, former residents here, was killed in action at Tarawa, Nov. 20, according to information just recently received by his parents from the war department.  Corp. Barker had previously been reported missing.

He participated in the Battle of Tarawa as a raider in a medium tank battalion.

Born Dec. 20, 1920, at the Barker farm home, near Delavan, Barker left here during his early youth with his parents, who moved to Evanston, Illinois.  Surviving besides his parents, are two sisters, Mrs S.H. Wright, Chicago, and Mrs. J.A. Gibas, Denver, and a brother , ElbridgeS. Barker, Chicago.

Cpl. Barker has a cenotaph  in the Honolulu Memorial.  A cenotaph is a structure erected in honor of someone whose remains are elsewhere.

--GreGen