SANFORD TRIBUNE & ADVOCATE
Thursday, September 3, 1942
Full Military Services For Capt. Gillis
Company C Head Found Dead of Bullet Wound Monday
Full military funeral services with Company C Maine State Guard, which he commanded since last July 8, as escorts, will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock for Captain Robert G. Gillis, 46, World War veteran who was found dead of a bullet wound in the head Monday morning at the local Armory in the Town Hall basement. A suicide verdict was pronounced by Dr. S. A. Cobb, York County medical examiner. No reason for the act could be determined.
Arthur Hamblin, chaplain at Camp Langdon, Portsmouth, NH, will officiate at services at the Hurd Funeral Home. A volley will be fired at the grave in the Oakdale Cemetery, the firing squad comprising the oldest sergeants of Co. C, commanded by Linwood J. Emery. The squad will include Ray Therriault, Marshall Bernier, Mott White, Gilbert Webber, John Fawcett and Harvey Lessard.
Honorary pall bearers will include Lieut. - Col. David Hayes of Portland, commander of the First Battalion, Maine State Guard, and Capt. Arthur E. Morrison of Sanford, former commanding officer of Company C.; Robley C. Wilson and Roger Reed of Preble Lodge of Masons, and Maurice Gumpert and Wilfred Gowen of the Goodall Worsted Co. Bearers will be corporals of Company C. First Lieutenant Clifford Cook, acting company at present, will command the escort. Roland Langlois company bugler will blow taps.
Among officials of the Maine State Guard expected are Lieut. - Col. Hayes, Major Ralph B. Skinner, executive officer of the First Battalion; Major Marshalton, ordinance officer; and Col. William Hart, assistant adjutant general of the state.
Found by Cook
Capt. Gillis, who shot himself in the temple with a .22 caliber rifle, was last seen alive at 5:18 p.m. Sunday, when Chief of Police Ernest L. Chadbourne summoned him to the telephone to answer a call informing him that he might relieve his men for further duty during Maine State Guard maneuvers.
First Lieutenant Clifford Cook, upon entering the Armory Monday morning at 9 o'clock, saw the body lying on the floor in front of the target range, called Chief Chadbourne, and the two identified the body as that of Capt. Gillis.
Capt. Gillis, who had been a member of the company since it was organized, was born in Sanford, the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Gillis. He had been employed at the Goodall Worsted Mills.
He is survived by his parents; his wife, Mrs. Rose A. Gillis; a daughter, Florence; three sisters and two brothers.
Thursday, September 3, 1942
Full Military Services For Capt. Gillis
Company C Head Found Dead of Bullet Wound Monday
Full military funeral services with Company C Maine State Guard, which he commanded since last July 8, as escorts, will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock for Captain Robert G. Gillis, 46, World War veteran who was found dead of a bullet wound in the head Monday morning at the local Armory in the Town Hall basement. A suicide verdict was pronounced by Dr. S. A. Cobb, York County medical examiner. No reason for the act could be determined.
Arthur Hamblin, chaplain at Camp Langdon, Portsmouth, NH, will officiate at services at the Hurd Funeral Home. A volley will be fired at the grave in the Oakdale Cemetery, the firing squad comprising the oldest sergeants of Co. C, commanded by Linwood J. Emery. The squad will include Ray Therriault, Marshall Bernier, Mott White, Gilbert Webber, John Fawcett and Harvey Lessard.
Honorary pall bearers will include Lieut. - Col. David Hayes of Portland, commander of the First Battalion, Maine State Guard, and Capt. Arthur E. Morrison of Sanford, former commanding officer of Company C.; Robley C. Wilson and Roger Reed of Preble Lodge of Masons, and Maurice Gumpert and Wilfred Gowen of the Goodall Worsted Co. Bearers will be corporals of Company C. First Lieutenant Clifford Cook, acting company at present, will command the escort. Roland Langlois company bugler will blow taps.
Among officials of the Maine State Guard expected are Lieut. - Col. Hayes, Major Ralph B. Skinner, executive officer of the First Battalion; Major Marshalton, ordinance officer; and Col. William Hart, assistant adjutant general of the state.
Found by Cook
Capt. Gillis, who shot himself in the temple with a .22 caliber rifle, was last seen alive at 5:18 p.m. Sunday, when Chief of Police Ernest L. Chadbourne summoned him to the telephone to answer a call informing him that he might relieve his men for further duty during Maine State Guard maneuvers.
First Lieutenant Clifford Cook, upon entering the Armory Monday morning at 9 o'clock, saw the body lying on the floor in front of the target range, called Chief Chadbourne, and the two identified the body as that of Capt. Gillis.
Capt. Gillis, who had been a member of the company since it was organized, was born in Sanford, the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Gillis. He had been employed at the Goodall Worsted Mills.
He is survived by his parents; his wife, Mrs. Rose A. Gillis; a daughter, Florence; three sisters and two brothers.
SANFORD TRIBUNE & ADVOCATE
Thursday, September 3, 1942
Full Military Services For Capt. Gillis
Company C Head Found Dead of Bullet Wound Monday
Full military funeral services with Company C Maine State Guard, which he commanded since last July 8, as escorts, will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock for Captain Robert G. Gillis, 46, World War veteran who was found dead of a bullet wound in the head Monday morning at the local Armory in the Town Hall basement. A suicide verdict was pronounced by Dr. S. A. Cobb, York County medical examiner. No reason for the act could be determined.
Arthur Hamblin, chaplain at Camp Langdon, Portsmouth, NH, will officiate at services at the Hurd Funeral Home. A volley will be fired at the grave in the Oakdale Cemetery, the firing squad comprising the oldest sergeants of Co. C, commanded by Linwood J. Emery. The squad will include Ray Therriault, Marshall Bernier, Mott White, Gilbert Webber, John Fawcett and Harvey Lessard.
Honorary pall bearers will include Lieut. - Col. David Hayes of Portland, commander of the First Battalion, Maine State Guard, and Capt. Arthur E. Morrison of Sanford, former commanding officer of Company C.; Robley C. Wilson and Roger Reed of Preble Lodge of Masons, and Maurice Gumpert and Wilfred Gowen of the Goodall Worsted Co. Bearers will be corporals of Company C. First Lieutenant Clifford Cook, acting company at present, will command the escort. Roland Langlois company bugler will blow taps.
Among officials of the Maine State Guard expected are Lieut. - Col. Hayes, Major Ralph B. Skinner, executive officer of the First Battalion; Major Marshalton, ordinance officer; and Col. William Hart, assistant adjutant general of the state.
Found by Cook
Capt. Gillis, who shot himself in the temple with a .22 caliber rifle, was last seen alive at 5:18 p.m. Sunday, when Chief of Police Ernest L. Chadbourne summoned him to the telephone to answer a call informing him that he might relieve his men for further duty during Maine State Guard maneuvers.
First Lieutenant Clifford Cook, upon entering the Armory Monday morning at 9 o'clock, saw the body lying on the floor in front of the target range, called Chief Chadbourne, and the two identified the body as that of Capt. Gillis.
Capt. Gillis, who had been a member of the company since it was organized, was born in Sanford, the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Gillis. He had been employed at the Goodall Worsted Mills.
He is survived by his parents; his wife, Mrs. Rose A. Gillis; a daughter, Florence; three sisters and two brothers.
Thursday, September 3, 1942
Full Military Services For Capt. Gillis
Company C Head Found Dead of Bullet Wound Monday
Full military funeral services with Company C Maine State Guard, which he commanded since last July 8, as escorts, will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock for Captain Robert G. Gillis, 46, World War veteran who was found dead of a bullet wound in the head Monday morning at the local Armory in the Town Hall basement. A suicide verdict was pronounced by Dr. S. A. Cobb, York County medical examiner. No reason for the act could be determined.
Arthur Hamblin, chaplain at Camp Langdon, Portsmouth, NH, will officiate at services at the Hurd Funeral Home. A volley will be fired at the grave in the Oakdale Cemetery, the firing squad comprising the oldest sergeants of Co. C, commanded by Linwood J. Emery. The squad will include Ray Therriault, Marshall Bernier, Mott White, Gilbert Webber, John Fawcett and Harvey Lessard.
Honorary pall bearers will include Lieut. - Col. David Hayes of Portland, commander of the First Battalion, Maine State Guard, and Capt. Arthur E. Morrison of Sanford, former commanding officer of Company C.; Robley C. Wilson and Roger Reed of Preble Lodge of Masons, and Maurice Gumpert and Wilfred Gowen of the Goodall Worsted Co. Bearers will be corporals of Company C. First Lieutenant Clifford Cook, acting company at present, will command the escort. Roland Langlois company bugler will blow taps.
Among officials of the Maine State Guard expected are Lieut. - Col. Hayes, Major Ralph B. Skinner, executive officer of the First Battalion; Major Marshalton, ordinance officer; and Col. William Hart, assistant adjutant general of the state.
Found by Cook
Capt. Gillis, who shot himself in the temple with a .22 caliber rifle, was last seen alive at 5:18 p.m. Sunday, when Chief of Police Ernest L. Chadbourne summoned him to the telephone to answer a call informing him that he might relieve his men for further duty during Maine State Guard maneuvers.
First Lieutenant Clifford Cook, upon entering the Armory Monday morning at 9 o'clock, saw the body lying on the floor in front of the target range, called Chief Chadbourne, and the two identified the body as that of Capt. Gillis.
Capt. Gillis, who had been a member of the company since it was organized, was born in Sanford, the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Gillis. He had been employed at the Goodall Worsted Mills.
He is survived by his parents; his wife, Mrs. Rose A. Gillis; a daughter, Florence; three sisters and two brothers.
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