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Name:
Hazel Alberta Eaton
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Service Number:
N-756063
Service:
81st General Hospital,
US Army Women’s Nurse Corps
Date of Birth:
February 13, 1904
Place of Birth:
Granville Ferry, Annapolis Co., NS
Date of Enlistment:
Unknown
Place of Enlistment:
New York
Address at Enlistment:
New York
Age at Enlistment:
Unknown
Height:
5 feet, 4 inches
Complexion:
Fair
Hair color:
Brown
Eyes color:
Brown
Occupation:
Registered Nurse
Marital Status:
Single
Date of Death:
September 21, 1944
Age:
40
Cemetery:
Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial
Grave:
Plot D, Row 3, Grave 36
Hazel Alberta Eaton was the daughter of Arthur St. Clair Eaton (1880-1951) and May Alberta (Buckler) Eaton
(1875-1962). Hazel had three brothers, two that died young, Rupert Edmund Eaton (1907-1910) and Wilfred
‘Donald Eaton (1909-1910), and older brother Harold St. Clair Eaton (1906–1977).
Hazel moved to the US in 1927 travelling on the SS Prince George from Yarmouth, NS, to Boston, Mass. She
became a US citizen October 11, 1933.
The 81st General Hospital was set up in Great Malvern in Worcestershire, in the West of England.
Second Lieutenant Hazel Alberta Eaton died in Cardiff in Wales and was interred at the Cambridge American
Cemetery in England.
The Cambridge American Cemetery sits on a quiet hillside outside the ancient university town of Cambridge.
This is the only military cemetery in the UK that commemorates American service members who died in
WWII. Graves fan out across the lawn in sweeping curves. The mosaic on the ceiling of the memorial building
depicts the flight out ghostly aircraft joined by mourning angels flying into eternity. The Walls of the Missing
list over 5000 names.
Hazel is also memorialised a headstone with her uncle Sapper Stewart Bertram Eaton at the Stoney Beach
Cemetery in Granville Beach, Annapolis Co., Nova Scotia. Stewart Eaton was killed October 12, 1915, while
serving with the 1st (North Midland) Field Company of the Royal Engineers of the British Army. He is interred
in the Lindenhoek Chalet Military Cemetery.
Hazel Alberta Eaton