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Identifier: NewEnglandaviatVol1Tick (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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-ing Jan., 1918), and to Princeton University, Jan. 7, 1918, beingtransferred to Park Field, Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 14, 1918. He was commissioned 2d Lieut. March 17, 1918, and was keptat Park Field as officer in charge of formation flying. He wastwice recommended for promotion, by Major Jernegan and Col.Mc.Chord. On Oct. 13, 1918, he succumbed to pneumonia at Park Field,Memphis, and was buried from his home at Westboro, Mass., withmilitary honors. The long-wished-for overseas orders came to himafter he was taken ill. In a letter to Lieut. Metcalfs family, Frazier Curtis wrote: What he did for army flying can only be realized by the few of us whoknow that in March, 1916, we had only 24 army flyers qualified for theWestern Front, and that the Harvard Flying Corps was the first successfulattempt to get college men interested in the flying game. Married, Jan. 1, 1918, Helen T. B. Williams, of Pasadena, Cal. Brother in Service — Walter W. Metcalf, Lieut.-Col., 305th Infantry, A.E.F.( 312 )
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* ROLAND JOHN WINTERTON Second Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.SA., Second ProvisionalTraining SquadronKilled in airplane accident, April 16, 1918 Son of Roland B. and Catherine M. (OBrien) Winterton; wasborn in South Boston, Mass., May 7, 1889. He attended the SouthBoston High School, where he was prominent in athletics. He wasdevoted to yachting, and was librarian and an active member ofthe South Boston Yacht Club. He left his business as civil engineerand surveyor to enlist at the 1st Plattsburg Camp, May 7, 1917.Having been assigned to the Air Service, he was sent to the U.S.A.Aeronautical School, M.I.T., in Oct., 1917. On Dec. 19 he wastransferred to Ellington Field, Houston, Tex., attached to the 1stProv. Training Squadron, and later to the 2d Squadron. On March25 he was commissioned 2d Lieut., A.S. On April 16, 1918, while acting as pilot of an airplane in whichhe and Cadet Jones of Worcester had been doing camera worknear Webster, Tex., both aviators were killed at Ellington Fieldin an

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