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��SECOND LIEUTENANT CLAUDE B. HILL

Company A, 310th Engineers, Eighty-fifth Division. Drowned in the Dvina Ri

Russia, on October 8, 1918.

��2nd Lt. CLAUDE B. HILL

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��Lieutenant pieces and ried. His

��Lieutenant Hill was born in Seattle, Wash., on August 13, 1894. He was educated in the public schools of Chi- cago, graduating from Hyde Park High School in 1913 and from Armour In- stitute of Technology in 1916. He then entered the employ of the Fred S. James Company of Chicago as an engineer. As a lifeguard for Chicago beaches, he ■was credited with having rescued thirty-five people while on duty. He w^as admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp. Upon receipt of his commission he was ordered to Fort Leavenvs^orth, Kans., for further study in engineering. He sailed for France with the Eighty-fifth Division in July, 1918. He w^as then ordered to Russia, reporting to the 3 1 0th Engineers. Lieutenant Hill v/ith his platoon w^ent to Seltsoe, on the Dvina River, in September. They were under constant shell fire for eleven days. For his brilliant work,

Lieutenant Hill was rewarded with the Distinguished Service Order by the Brit-

ish Government. It was while attempting

to bring in a deserted Russsian tug that Hill and three of his men were drowned after their boat had been smashed to they were attempting to wade ashore under heavy shell fire. He was unmar- parents, Dr. and Mrs. Charles Hill, 6330 Kimbark avenue, Chicago, survive.

��FIRST LIEUTENANT EDWARD HINES, JR.

4th Machine Gun Battalion, Second Division. Died of pneumonia on June 4, at Base Hospital No. 1 5, Chaumont, France.

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��Lieutenant Hines was born in Chicago, III., on July 24, 1896. He was educated in the public schools and graduated from Philips Academy. He then entered Yale University, taking up the Sheffield Scientific Course, and was in his second year when he entered First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the Third Company. Upon receiving a commission as second lieutenant he was ordered to the 4th Machine Gun Battalion, Gettysburg, Pa., sailing with that outfit for France on December 24, 1917. After a few months service overseas. Lieutenant Hines was promoted to a first lieutenancy. In May, 1918, he was taken ill, the sick- ness later developing into pneumonia. He was transferred to Base Hospital No. 15, where he steadily grew worse and died on June 4th. He was unmarried. His par- Ridge avenue, Evanston, 111., survive him. His father is president of the Edward Hines Lumber Co,

��1st Lt. EDWARD HINES, JR.

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