WWI

Leon Charles "Lem" Hammett

Rate / Rank
Private

Birthdate
January 16 1986

Date of Death
October 10 1918

Branch
US Army

Active Duty Service
June 27 1918 - October 10 1918

Conflicts & Campaigns

American Expeditionary Forces
August 10, 1918 - October 10, 1918

Significant Duty Stations

24th Training Battalion, 157th Depot Brigade, Camp Gordon, Georgia to July 27, 1918
15th Company, August automatic replacement draft to death.

Notes

Inducted; Cairo, Georgia. US Army serial number 34-984-39. Home of record; RFD "A", Cairo, Georgia. Was a victim of pneumonia. Died at hospital in Winchester, England. He was the first of the Grady County solders who died while serving the colors overseas to be brought back to this country. Brother of PFC Charles L. Hammett US Army. Burial; Arlington National Cemetery, Monday, October 30, 1920. Section Europe, Site 516. Person notified of death was Mrs. Briney W. Hammett (Mother) RFD "A", Cairo, Georgia.