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Show Three Killed In War Action; All In Pacific The two cold, impersonal war department telegrams which were lelivered to two Hyrum families Thursday wrote "fin-is" to a lifelong friendship of Prive First Class La Von Bostock and Private Blaine McBride. The two men, boys when they enlisted in the army four years ago, went to the Philippines together, were captured cap-tured by the Japanese on Corregidor and were aboard a Jap prison ship which was sunk October 24, 1944 by submarine action. The war department has listed them as "dead." Private First Class Bostock was born October 4, 1923 in Hyrum, a son of William and Aliee Hnlse Rnsteielc. He was Tragedy again struck Cache Valley when Mrs. Mavis R. Hil. ton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Roundy of Benson ward, received word stating that her husband, Lieutenant Samuel W. Hilton, II, 26, had been killed in action on Okinawa, May 12. Lieutenant Hilton, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hilton, Sr., of ! Pleasant Grove, after graduating from the school of Engineering at US AC, entered the army in August, 1943 and received his commission at Camp Davis, N. C. He was assigned successively to Fort Benning, Ga.; Washington, D. C, and Fort Ord, California. He sailed from Seattle, Wash., to Hawaii on February 15 this year. educated in Hyrum cchools and was one of the first Hyrum Hy-rum men to enlist in the service. ser-vice. He was sent to the Philippines without military training and trained there. Survivors include his parents, par-ents, six brothers, Thomas Bostock, Sergeant 1-c, who has been in Alaska and now is in S'eattle, Wash.; George Ronald,. Donald, Gordon and Paul Bostock, of Hyrum, and five sisters: Mrs. Fern Hardy, of Ogden; Maurine, Juanite, . Genevieve and Virginia Bostock, Bos-tock, of Hyrum, and a grandfather, grand-father, William Hulse, of Logan. Lo-gan. Private First Class McBride, was born July 3, 1923 in Hyrum, Hy-rum, the son of Mark and Velda Anderson McBride. He was educated in Hyrum schools and enlisted in the early phases of the war. Survivors incldue his father, of Ogden, four brothers, Eugene Eu-gene McBride, of Smithfield; . Leonard and Harold McBride, . of Redding, Idaho;. Shirley McBride, Mc-Bride, S 1c, in the Pacific theater; and four sisters: Mrs. Ruby Hainey, of Buhl, Idaho; Mrs. De jiorad Hodges, of Smithfield; Mrs. Verna Grund-er, Grund-er, of Boise, Idaho, and Mrs. Clen Hillstrom, of Logan. Alter snort assignments in Hawaii and the Mariannas Islands he entered the Okinawa campaign cam-paign April 18, 1945, approximately approximate-ly three weeks before he was killed. Soon after landing on Okinawa Lieutenant conducted the first L. D. S. service held by Mormon soldiers. Lieutenant Hilton was born at Pleasant Grove, Utah, December 5, 1918, graduated from Pleasant Grove high, school in 1937 and filled a mission to Hawaii in 1939-41. He married Mavis Roundy, Roun-dy, March 31, 1943 in the Salt Lake Temple. ' ' He is remembered by his friends as having been extremely active at the USAC in directing the intramural sports activities at the Delta Phi, L.D.S. Missionary Fraternity and as a Lieutenant in the ROTC. He was very active in scouting and was a n Eagle Scout. Lieutenant Hilton is' survived by his wife, who is living with her parents in Benson ward, his parents, par-ents, five brothers and a sister, Lieutenant J. D. Hilton, of Ala-morgordo, Ala-morgordo, N. M.; A. Eugene Hilton Hil-ton S 1c, of Great Lakes, 111.; Robert and Floyd Hilton, of Pleasant Grove; a step-brother, Abel J. Ekins, of Honolulu, T. H., and Frances Hilton of Salt Lake city. Memorial services will be conducted con-ducted in the Pleasant Grove tabernacle, Sunday, July 1. |