Lt. Col. Hugh Walker Ogden

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Officer de la Legion d'Honneur. Judge Advocate of the 42nd Division A.E.F. Born at Bath, Maine, December 7th 1871. Died at Bath, England, September 3rd 1938.

Lt. Col. Hugh W. Ogden, Judge Advocate, was a co-author of Proceedings and Report of Special War Department Board on Courts-Martial and Their Procedure, July 17, 1919.

Col. Ogden was appointed Auditor by the Massachusetts Superior Court to hear evidence in the wake of the Great Molasses Flood of January 15, 1919. The hearings resulted in a 25,000 page transcript and numerous reports to accompany damage awards over a five-and-a-half year period.