Show I Navy Lieutenant Killed In Solomon Battle BattleSon Son of a former Salt Lake City couple Lieutenant Junior Grade Francis Lee Hamlin has been killed in action in the second battle battle battle bat bat- tle of the Solomons according to word received here by relatives The navy otic officer r was a son of Mr Ir and Mrs Herbert S. S Hamlin San Francisco Cal Cat who formerly made their home here His father Is editor of the Pony Express Courier magazine Lieutenant Hamlin received his education in California at Berkeley Berkeley Berke Berke- ley high school and was was was' graduated graduated graduated from the University of California Cali- Cali fornia forma with a major in music i He entered a naval school in j 1910 1910 and received his commission I as ensign shortly after II A veteran of the Jap attack on Pearl Harbor Lieutenant Hamlin I also participated In the b battle of the Coral sea and the first and second battles of Midway He is survived by his parents a sister Patricia Hamlin a grandfather grandfather grand grand- father Albert Lott Loll Hamlin Salt Lake City and a grandmother I Mrs Margaret Lee Castelli Oakland Oakland Oakland Oak Oak- land Cal |