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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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d a height of 16,700 feet. At the time of his death he was flying in a model J.N. 4-HCurtiss plane decorated with the Iron Cross to represent a Germanscout plane. With several other planes he appeared in battleformation dropping imaginary bombs. Lieut. Clement was playingthe part of the German scout plane attempting an escape, whenthe accident occurred. He was buried with military honors from Trinity Church, Rut-land, Vt., and interred in the family lot there, at EvergreenCemetery. Lieut. Henri Le Maitre, the famous French Ace, was present atthe exhibition of flying when Lieut. Clement met his death. Heexpressed himself as amazed at the work of the Camp Dick flyers.Never, he said, in all his experience, both at the front and inAmerica, had he seen such flying. He spoke especially of the dar-ing and skilful work of Lieut. Clement. Brother in Service — Roger C. Clement, Harvard Regiment 1916-17, commissioned1st Lieut. Nov. 27, 1917, promoted to Capt. Aug., 1918, atCamp Devens. ( 322 )
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GEORGE H. TRIDER, Jr. Second Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.S.A. Son of George H. and Hannah A. (Ziegler) Trider; was born inWaltham, Mass., Sept. 13, 1890. He was educated in the Walthampublic schools and at Massachusetts Agricultural College. He enlisted Sept. 27, 1917, at Cambridge, Mass., and trainedfirst at M.I.T. Ground School, from Dec. 1, 1917, to Jan. 6, 1918;then he was transferred to Princeton University, U.S.S.M.A.,where he graduated on Feb. 2, 1918. He was attached to the CadetDetachment, 13th Squadron, at Camp Dick, Dallas, Tex., fromMarch 2 to March 13, and had flying training at Taliaferro Field,Fort Worth, Tex., from March 13 to June 28, 1918. He was com-missioned 2d Lieut. June 21, 1918, with brevet grade, R.M.A.He was ordered to Flying Officers Detachment, Camp Dick, fromJune 28 to July 25; and acted as machine-gun instructor, at WilburWright Field, Fairfield, 0., from July 27 to Aug. 24, 1918. Receiving overseas orders, Lieut. Trider sailed from Hoboken onAug. 30, 1918, lan

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