- Rank: S1c
- Branch: USN
- Home Town: *Denver, CO
- Date Of Birth: January 11, 1922
- Disposition: Unrecovered
- Family DNA on File: NO
S1c Edwin Carrell Hamilton
Edwin Carrell Hamilton was born Jan. 11, 1922 at Pueblo, Colorado. His mother, Ethel, was a homemaker and his father, Charles C., a railroad worker.
The 1930 Census said the family still lived at Pueblo, but by 1935 they had moved to Denver. That same Census said Edwin was adopted. He was the Hamilton’s only child.
Edwin graduated from East High, where the yearbook pictured him in the class of 1941.
Perhaps he graduated early, because Mr. Hamilton enlisted in the Navy on Jan. 27, 1941. He was a seaman first class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that Dec. 7.
Sources: Special thanks to Janice Green, a cousin. Other sources include: The Denver (Colorado) Post; Census; Navy enlistment records and muster roll; East HIgh School yearbook; POW/MIA Accounting Agency. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
*NOTE: The U.S.S. Arizona Memorial does not list a home State for this service member. Research shows Colorado as S1c Hamilton’s home State.