Hutton, Samuel

Born deaf to a deaf family at Columbus, OH. Attended the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, 1894-1895. During the Spanish-American War, 1898, he served as a "hostler" in the U.S. Army. In 1917, on a visit to New York City, he went to a Canadian recruiting station there and enlisted in the Canadian Engineering Corps, probably on the strength of his earlier U.S. Army experience. Immediately sent to the front in Europe, transferred to the [British] Royal Engineers, in which he rose to the noncommissioned officer rank of regimental burial sergeant. Wounded by mustard gas at Zonnekecke, Belgium; recovery took over a year, and he finally returned home in August 1918, settling in New York City and drawing a Canadian military pension.