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��1st Lt. JAY W. HATCH
��FIRST LIEUTENANT JAY W. HATCH
Company A, 7th Infantry, Third Division. Died in Detroit, Mich., on November 1 5,
1919, as the result of wounds received in action near Chateau
Thierry, France, in June, 1918.
Lieutenant Hatch was born in Marshall, Mich., in 1887. He v^^as educated in the public schools of Marshall, and then entered the law school of the Univer- sity of Michigan, graduating in 1910. He practiced law in his home city. Battle Creek, and Detroit, where he was located until his admission to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he received his commission. Going from there to Camp Jackson, he sailed for France w^ith the 7th Infantry in March, 1918. Lieutenant Hatch was wounded four times as a result of his part in the Marne and Argonne fighting. He returned to the United States in December, 1918, and was discharged from the army on January 7, 1919, being recommissioned in the Officers' Reserve Corps. After return- ing to civil life he entered into politics, with the result that he was elected as a justice of the peace in Detroit. He was taken ill and removed to Grace Hospital, v^rhere he died. His illness was diagnosed as due to w^ounds received in action. He was married in 1914 to Miss Blanche
Miller-Doran. Besides his widow, he is survived by his parents, three brothers and three
sisters, all of whom reside in Marshall, Mich. DIED NOVEMBER 15,
��Capt. THOMAS J. HAWKINS
��CAPTAIN THOMAS J. HAWKINS
Headquarters Company, 3 1 0th Ammunition Train, Eighty-fifth Division. Died at Cosne, France, from cerebro spinal meningitis, on September 21, 1918.
Captain Hawkins was born in Detroit, Mich., on November 26, 1887. He re- ceived a public school education and then entered the Detroit College of Law, gradu- ating in 1912 and entering business for himself. At the outbreak of the war he was admitted to the First Officers' Train- ing Camp at Fort Sheridan and assigned to the Second Company. Upon receipt of his commission he was ordered to Camp Custer and assigned to the Eighty-fifth Division, w^ith w^hich he sailed for France. Captain Hawkins was appointed adjutant to the 3 1 0th Ammunition Train, and also had charge of military police work at Cosne, France. While in training and awaiting movement orders to the front, Captain Hawkins was taken sick on Sep- tember 19, 1918, later being conveyed to the hospital, where he succumbed three days later. He was unmarried. His par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. William Hawkins, of Detroit, Mich., survive.
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