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English: First Lieutenant Leland V. Clark, A.S.A., U.S.A. Son of Frederick W. and Carrie E. (Vining) Clark; was born at North Abington, Mass., June 3, 1893. He was educated in the Abington public schools, and at the M.I.T. He played on his school football team; and at Technology was a member of the tug-of-war team. He enlisted on June 18, 1917, at M.I.T. Ground School, where he spent two months. He was then transferred to Belleville, 111., on Aug. 18, 1917, where he made his first flight from Scott Field on Sept. 11, 1917. He was commissioned 1st Lieut, in Jan., 1918, and sailed for overseas service on the ill-fated U.S. steamship SS Tuscania, which was torpedoed off the Irish coast on Feb. 7, 1918. Lieut. Clark was in active service in France until the end of the war. Grandfather in Service — A. Elliot Vining, served in the Civil War.

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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He was commissioned 1st Lieut, in Jan., 1918, andsailed for overseas service on the ill-fated Tuscania, which was tor-pedoed off the Irish coast on Feb. 7, 1918. Lieut. Clark was in active service in France until the end of thewar. (Portrait on opposite page.) Grandfather in Service — A. Elliot Vining, served in the Civil War. THOMAS R. TARRANT Second Lieutenant, A.S., U.S.A. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Tarrant, of Brookline, Mass. Heentered Dartmouth College in the class of 1918. In June, 1917, heenlisted in the American Ambulance Field Service, and sailed forFrance with the Dartmouth College unit. He was in the CamionService for five months; was appointed Corporal by the French,and placed in charge of cars taking ammunition to the front. InDec, 1917, he transferred to the Aviation Service, and trainedwith the French, receiving a French brevet. On May 18, 1918,he was commissioned 2d Lieut, in the U.S. Aviation Service, andserved as an Instructor until the end of the war. ( 208 )
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GELSTON TYLER KING Second Lieutenant, A.S., U.S.A. Son of Samuel Gelstonand Alice (Tyler) King; was born at Boston,Mass., July 20,1894. He was educated at the Noble and GreenoughSchool, Boston, class of 1912, and Harvard College, A.B. 1916. He attended the Officers Training Camp at Plattsburg, in thesummer of 1917, and the M.I.T. Ground School in the fall of 1917,leaving there in Dec. to continue his training at Ellington Field,Houston, Tex. He was commissioned 2d Lieut, and sent to Talia-ferro Field, Fort Worth, Tex., where he completed a course in ad-vanced flying, as Bombing Pilot. He was sent overseas in the fall of1918, and remained at Clermont-Ferrand until after the Armisticewas signed, when he was sent to pilot some of the ships, that ourAmerican aviators had left at the front, back to their bases. Hereturned to the U.S. in Feb., 1919. (Portrait on opposite page.) HARRY W. SEELEYFirst Lieutenant, A.S., U.S.A. He was one of the original members of the First Aeronautical Di-visi

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