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50th Company, 165th Depot Brigade ~ Camp Travis Detachment #1

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Martin Columbus Hill - Wimberley, Hays Co., Texas

Army Rank: Private (1918).

Assigned Unit: 165th Depot Brigade, 50th Company, Detachment #1

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Inducted:

Army Discharge: Eternal Watch

Remarks:  Overseas Jan. 24, 1918 – KIA

   Torpedoed on the Transport Tuscania Feb. 5, 1918

   Address: Justice Precinct 3, Hays Co., Texas (1900) (1910)

Next of Kin: Mother - Sarah Hill, Wimberley, Hays Co., TX

Fathers Name: Elijah J. Hill

(b. Sept. 29, 1843 Arkansas)

(d. Sept. 11, 1902 Wimberley, Hays Co., Texas)

Confederate Soldier - Veteran

Mothers Name: Sarah L. Bell

(b. 1854 Texas)

(d. 1924 Hays Co., Texas)

Brothers: James & George

Sisters: Mary, Lucinda, Maggie, Rhonda, Minnie, Lillian, and Ruth

Civilian Occupation: Farmer

Born: Jan. 25, 1889

Died: Feb. 5, 1918 KIA North Channel, United Kingdom

Buried: Trench 1, Grave 14, Mull of Oa, Kinabus, Islay, Scotland

   Burial was Feb. 8, 1918

   Body exhumed and relocated to America; 1920 or thereafter.

Cemetery: Wimberley Cemetery, Wimberley, Hays Co., Texas

Internment date:

Plot: D8

   

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