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English: Lieutenant Van Zandt Stone, R.F.C., Eighty-Third Aero Squadron, Twenty-Third Section. Son of Charles Emerson and Ada Menzies (Dailey) Stone; was born in Andover, Mass., Sept. 14, 1893. He was educated at Phillips Andover Academy, graduating in 1912. On Aug. 11, 1917, he enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps, and was sent for training successively to Long Branch, Ontario, Toronto University, and Camp Mohawk, Deseronto, Can. On Nov. 15, 1917, he was commissioned 2d Lieut., and attached as instructor in turn to Camps Benbrook and Hicks, Fort Worth, Tex. He was commissioned 1st Lieut, in Feb., 1918, and made Flight Commander at Camp Leaside, Toronto. He was sent overseas and stationed at the Central Flying School, Upavon, Wilts, Eng., where, owing to his efficiency as Instructor, the War Office retained him until the end of the war. Lieut. Stone was honorably discharged from the Royal Flying Corps and has returned to the U.S.

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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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e retainedhim until the end of the war. Lieut. Stone was honorably discharged from the Royal FlyingCorps and has returned to the U.S. The following Tribute to the Phillips Andover Boys in theWar, by Charles Emerson Stone, father of Lieut. Stone, seemsworthy of inclusion here: I was thinking only the other day of the more than two thousand boysof our alumni and students who have been in this great war, and what apoignant regret it would always be that we had failed to see, in the yearsbefore it was certainly upon us, that the spirit of daring and the thirstfor action was put in them in actual preparation for this awful event. Howblind we are after all our research and years of study and thought, that weshould not have seen it, and have had a little more charity and greaterlove for the rare souls that were given into our keeping! But ten yearsago who could have foretold it all? Still the regret is there all the same.And we mourn the loss of eighty-three of earths noblemen. R.I.P. ( no )
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WALTER P. MUTHER First Lieutenant, A.S., U.S.A., One Hundred Forty-SeventhAero Squadron Son of Lorenz and Louisa (Ebert) Muther, of Newton, Mass.; wasborn at Oak Park, III, March 1, 1890. He attended the Mass.Institute of Technology, graduating in 1913. On June 2, 1917, heenlisted at Cambridge, Mass., and trained at the M.LT. GroundSchool and at the Flying School at Essington, Pa. He was com-missioned 1st Lieut., Air Service, Nov. 8, 1917. He sailed overseasfrom New York, Nov. 2, 1917, and continued his training at the3d A.LC, Issoudun, France, Dec. 4, 1917, to April 15, 1918, andat the American Aviation Acceptance Park, Orly, Seine, April 15to July 24, 1918. Lieut. Muther was then attached to the 147thAero Squadron, 1st Pursuit Group, with which he remained untilDec. 4, 1918. With this Squadron, which did notable work at thefront, he was in action at Chateau-Thierry, St.-Mihiel, and in theArgonne Forest. Lieut. Muther was honorably discharged, Feb. 17,1919. (Portrait on opposite page

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