Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Tlie Gold StBook. GEORGE 0. FRIEBEL, Marquette Naval Unit. Died December Twelfth, 1918, of influenza. Buried in La Belle Cemetery, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Enlisted September, 1918. Friebel was the third influenza victim at Marquette and his death came shortly before the demobilization of the Naval unit. He died at his home and a naval guard from the university accompanied the body to its final resting place. Friebel was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Friebel, 1376 Twenty-fifth Street. He was nineteen years of age. Hanson attended the Law school at Marquette two and a half years before he went to the Mexican border. He was known to his classmates as “Red.” JAY BURLEIGH HANSON, Private. Field Hospital, Company One Hundred Twenty-Six, Sanitary Train Ono Hundred Seven, Thirty-Second Division. Died of disease February Sixteenth, 1919. Buried in the American Cemetery at Limoges, France. Hanson was with the army at the Mexican border when the war broke out and early in January, 1918, was sent to Newport News, from where he went to St. Asaire, France. He took part in all the battles that the Thirty-Second Division participated in and shortly after the armistice was signed succumbed to pneumonia, at Base Hospital Thirteen, Limoges, France. m

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JAMES LOWELL COREY, Corporal Eighty-third Company, Sixth Regiment, Marines. Killed in action in the battle of Soissons, July Nineteenth, 1918. Buried near Vierzy, France. Enlisted November, 1917. Corey was the first Marquette gold star man. He had been over the top three times and during May and June spent many days in the front line trenches. While recovering from shell shock in a French hospital, he was attended by a fraternity brother, Charles Crottier. He recovered in time to take part in the battle that was the turning point of the war. A letter from his captain says: “We went into the battle of Soissons on July Nineteenth and were pushing the fight on the retreating enemy when we met terrible machine gun opposition from their rear guards. It was during this advance that Corporal Corey was killed by a machine gun bullet near Vierzy, France. He died instantly and was buried on the spot by his comrades. Corey studied Journalism while at Marquette. JAMES D. DESMOND, Lieutenant United States Marine Corps. Born November Twenty-fifth, 1896. Died at Quantico, Virginia, September Twenty-first, 1918. Buried at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Enlisted March, 1915. After his graduation from the academy, Desmond enlisted in the Marines and when the United States entered the war was transferred from the band school to the regular ranks. In the early part of September, 1918, he was commissioned first lieutenant and was preparing to leave for France when death overtook him. The entire Marine forces then at Quantico and a large Naval detachment were present at the military funeral of their dear friend and officer. Sine

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KAY THOMAS HULICK. First Field Battalion, attached to the Marines. Died of wounds and pneumonia November Twenty-fifth, 1918. Enlisted in the One Hundred Seventh Field Signal Corps April Ninth, 1917. Buried Mesnes Centre, France. Hulick was one of the first to enter the service and was a spectator of the horrible Tuscania disaster. After arriving in France he was attached to the Marines and took part in the battles of Chateau-Thierry, Belleau Wood and Soissons. According to letters received he was gaining rapidly at an Evacuation hospital when he suddenly developed pneumonia and died a few days before Thanksgiving Day. In his last illness, he was attended by Father Fox. Hulick was an Academy student and remained there two years taking the classical course. He enlisted four days after war was declared and made the supreme sacrifice upon the fields of France. Afl AUGUST W. HATH, Lieutenant Company H, One Hundred Second Infantry, Twenty-Sixth Division. Killed in action October Twenty-sixth, 1918. Enlisted May, 1917. Buried in cemetery in Commune of Moirey, Meuse, France. Kath received his commission at the First Officers’ Training Camp at Fort Sheridan and was assigned to Camp Custer from where he was sent to France. He took an active part at Argonne Forest and the Meuse offensive. He was killed by a machine bullet in the latter battle while leading his men over the top. Lieutenant Kath was a former Law student and attended the evening classes. He was admitted to the bar July, 1915, but left his profession to take his part in the world struggle. Eleven