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English: First Lieutenant Edward Milton Wilcox, A.S.A., U.S.A., Ninety-Ninth Squadron British R.A.F. Son of George C. and Gertrude (Smith) Wilcox; was born at Winsted, Conn., July 14, 1896. He was educated at the Winsted public schools, Gilbert High School, and Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University. He was made a member of Sigma Chi, at Yale. He trained with the Yale S.A.T.C., April-June, 1917. On June 1, 1917, he enlisted at New Haven. In eight weeks he completed a course in Military Aeronautics at M.I.T., and was ordered overseas, sailing Aug. 18, 1917. He was a member of the 1st American Detachment attached to the Royal Flying Corps for training in England as pilot. He trained at Oxford, Stamford (flying a Curtiss machine); Lincoln (advanced flying), where he nearly lost his life when his engine failed at the height of 3000 feet, and he fell on a concealed embankment, destroying his de Haviland machine; he was slightly wounded, and was in a hospital for five weeks. During July, 1918, he was trained in aerial gunnery at Marske, Yorkshire, and was ready for the front. But he had further training in wireless telephony at Salisbury Plain, England. On May 13, 1918, he was commissioned 1st Lieut. Having trained from Sept. 4, 1917, to Aug. 5, 1918, Lieut. Wilcox served one month as ferry pilot in England, then as ferry pilot in France for the Independent Force, Royal Air Force, employed in bombing. He was sent to Courban, an aircraft depot, eleven miles behind the lines, which supplied machines for bombing squadrons, and it was then his duty to take machines to the front to replace casualties. The machines used for bombing trips were de Haviland 4’s with the Rolls-Royce engine, de Haviland 9’s and de Haviland 9 A’s, equipped with the Liberty motor. On reaching France, Lieut. Wilcox applied to go to the front, but was sent there only a week before the war ended, with the 99th Squadron, R.A.F. He had, however, 150 hours in the air to his credit before sailing for America, on Jan. 28, 1919. He was honorably discharged at Garden City, N.Y., on Feb. 14, 1919.

Identifier: NewEnglandaviatVol2Tick (find matches)
Title: New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937, ed
Subjects: Biography Aeronautics World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ont. But he hadfurther training in wireless telephony at Salisbury Plain, England.On May 13, 1918, he was commissioned 1st Lieut. Having trainedfrom Sept. 4, 1917, to Aug. 5, 1918, Lieut. Wilcox served onemonth as ferry pilot in England, then as ferry pilot in France forthe Independent Force, Royal Air Force, employed in bombing.He was sent to Courban, an aircraft depot, eleven miles behind thelines, which supplied machines for bombing squadrons, and itwas then his duty to take machines to the front to replace casual-ties. The machines used for bombing trips were de Haviland 4swith the Rolls-Royce engine, de Haviland 9s and de Haviland9 As, equipped with the Liberty motor. On reaching France, Lieut. Wilcox applied to go to the front,but was sent there only a week before the war ended, with the 99thSquadron, R.A.F. He had, however, 150 hours in the air to hiscredit before sailing for America, on Jan. 28, 1919. He was honor-ably discharged at Garden City, N.Y., on Feb. 14, 1919. ( 106 )
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ARTHUR KELLAM TYLEE Lieutenant-Colonel, R.A.F., Headquarters, Canada Son of Arthur Mailland and Harriet F. (Kellam) Tylee, of Quincy,Mass.; was born in Lennoxville, P.Q., Can., April 24, 1887. Heattended the Brookline public schools, and graduated fromM.I.T., B.S., 1907. On Aug. 4, 1915, he enlisted in the R.F.C., at Toronto, Can.,and was commissioned 2d Lieut, in the Canadian ExpeditionaryForces, on Nov. 18, 1915, and was stationed at Toronto until Dec,1915. On Dec. 7, 1915, he was commissioned 1st Lieut., RoyalFlying Corps, and ordered overseas. He was stationed at Thetford,Eng., until April, 1916; first attached to the 12th then to the 35thSquadron, R.F.C. Ordered to France, he was attached to the 23dSquadron until Aug., 1916. From then until Jan., 1917, he wasattached to the 65th Squadron in England. On Jan. 1, 1917, hewas commissioned Captain, and transferred to the 48th Squadronin England, remaining until Feb., 1917. During the next sixmonths he was with the 81st Squadron in Eng

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