Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1919 — HONORED WITH MILITARY MEDAL [ARTICLE]

HONORED WITH MILITARY MEDAL

SERGT. FRED H. HAMILTON, OF RENSSELAER, SPENDING FURLOUGH HERE. Sergt. Fred H. Hamilton, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Hamilton, of Rensselaer, is in Lafayette visiting his sister, Miss Marie Hamilton, of Purdue, a Kappa Alpha Theta, after a period of three years in France with the Canadian expeditionary forces. Young Hamilton has been twice wounded, and is adorned with the Military medal, one of the highest medals that can be awarded the enlisted man of the Canadian or English service. Sergt. Hamilton enlisted in the Canadian service in 1916, and was in England shortly after his enlistment, and soon repaired to France. He went to England in the infantry and was soon transferred in the machine gun corps. Later he becamte a member of the armored car service, and was made a corporal instructor for “green’ machine, gunners back of the front lines. Hamilton was first wounded in August, 1917, in battle at the famous Hull 70, where many Canadians gave their lives, and received his second wound during the first part of the great Cambrai drive last September, and for valor he displayed in. this event he was cited for the Military medal. He acquired his machine gun training at the famous Grathaim Machine Gun school in England, which is the leading gunnery school of that country. Sergt. Hamilton is returning to Victoria, British Columbia, at the end of his fourteen day furlough and stated that he expects to be discharged from the service in about two months. Hamilton attended DePauw university in 1914 and 1915. Sergt. Hamilton’s father is publisher of the Rensselaer Republican and Sergt. Hamilton stated that he would probably be connected there when he returns from Canada. —Lafayette Journal.