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Personal info

Full name
HYATT, Hub Garner
Date of birth
31 October 1909
Age
35
Place of birth
Afton, Dickens County, Texas
Hometown
Spur, Jefferson County, Mississippi

Military service

Service number
O2005495
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
395th Infantry Regiment,
99th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 March 1945
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
D 9 19

Immediate family

Members
William O. Hyatt (father)
Susan E. (Garner) Hyatt (mother)
Horace Hyatt (brother)
Willie Hyatt (sister)
Dora Hyatt (wife)
Vance G. Hyatt (son)

More information

2nd Lt Hub G. Hyatt graduated from Spur High School and owned and operated a grocery store in Hamlin for a time, traveled for a wholesale grocer and operated a grocery store in Abilene before he enlisted at Fort Bliss El Paso, Texas on 18 March 1941.


He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant with a battlefield commission, just one month before he was killed in action.

Source of information: www.wwiimemorial.com, www.findagrave.com, www.ancestry.com - Vanessa Hyatt Family Tree, The Hamlin Herald (Hamlin, Texas)

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com