Russell Hatch, July 22, 1939

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Creator

Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer

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Image

Item Type

Negatives

Description

A black and white negative of Russell (Russ) Hatch in his Whitby Volunteer Fire Brigade uniform. In the background is a wooden fence.

Notes

Samuel Russell (Russ) Hatch was born on 10 March 1894 to Frederick C. and Fannie Hatch. Russell married Elizabeth Henderson Steele on 25 January 1922 in Fergus, Ontario. They had one son, Frederick Steele Hatch. Mr. Hatch was a veteran of both World Wars serving as a Lieutenant during the First World War and a Major during the Second World War. He was a member of the Whitby Volunteer Fire Brigade for fourteen years. Russell died on 14 October 1958 in Whitby, Ontario. He is buried in Union Cemetery, Oshawa, Ontario.

Marjorie Georgina Ruddy (1908-1980) was a prominent Whitby photographer and the only commercial photographer in Whitby during the 1930s and 1940s. Marjorie was the official photographer for the Whitby Police Department starting in the 1930s and as a result took many photographs of car accidents, fingerprints and crime scenes. (Station Gallery. Whitby Through the Lens Photographs by Marjorie G. Ruddy, 1935-1948. Whitby: Station Gallery, 2010.)

Date of Original

22 July 1939

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