Age 25. Lodged at 1328 Palm Avenue, South Jacksonville, FL (local address 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA). Born 10/13/1917, in Bogalusa, LA. Died 11/29/1942 (Sunday), at 9:50 p.m., at Boston City Hospital, carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, attached to the Army Signal Corps. Was an electrical engineer attending Army Radar School at Harvard University (also misreported as training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Was at the Grove with Army radar school roommates Lieut. Eugene Goss, age 22, of Blairstown, IA, dead, and Lieut. John King, age 33, of Cambridge, MA, injured. Status was listed in both the 11/29/1942 Boston Herald and in the 11/30/1942 Worcester Telegram, Worcester, MA, as "seriously injured." Suffered, "3rd degree burns, face, body, hand, scalp" (death certificate). His remains were brought to Southern Mortuary in Boston. "John was credited with trying to help others escape from the human inferno where over 400 people were burned, suffocated or trampled to death..." (The Bogalusa Enterprise, Bogalusa, LA, 12/04/1942). Was raised in Foley, FL. "A native of Louisiana, he went to Foley with his parents when he was a small boy" (The Miami Herald, Miami, FL, 12/01/1942). Was a graduate of the University of Florida. Was an engineer for the federal Rural Electrification Administration until his Army enlistment eight months prior. Was single. Misreported as attached to "U.S. Navy" on the final official November 1943 Boston Committee on Public Safety casualties list. Was one of ten military student victims in special training at Harvard, under the Defense and War Training Programs of the U.S. Office of Education. Was tall and trim (WWII draft registration, October '40: 6' 1," 165 lbs.). Was the lone Grove fire casualty from Florida. Parents Mr. and Mrs. John R. and Ruth H. (Nickens) Hey, of Foley, FL. Burial at Evergreen Cemetery, Jacksonville, FL. Middle name Alfred.

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