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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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rve Flying Corps Son of Joseph and Edith C. (Johnson) Ashley, of Amesbury, Mass.;was born in New York City, Aug. 29, 1895. He graduated from theAmesbury High School in 1913, and during the previous summerattended a school of wireless telegraphy in Boston, receiving hisdiploma as state electrician, July 17, 1912. He entered the Went-worth Institute, where he won a years scholarship, graduating,1916. In April, 1917, he enlisted in the N.R.F.C. at Boston Navy Yard.He attended M.I.T. Ground School, then the flying school at Pen-sacola, Fla., on Oct. 2, 1917. He was commissioned Ensign on Jan.17, 1918, and sailed overseas on March 7, 1918; trained at NavalAir Station, Moutchic-Lacanau, until July 15,1918; was then trans-ferred to Brest as patrol pilot, convoying ships. On Dec. 16, 1918, he sailed for the U.S.; and was ordered toU.S.N. Air Station at Chatham, Mass., on Jan. 15, 1919, wherehe is still in Service. He was promoted to Lieut, (j.g.) in March,1919, dating from Oct., 1918. ( 442 )
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WILLIAM SINCLAIR CORMACK, Jr. Ensign, U.S. Naval Reserve Force, Northern Bombing Group Son of William Sinclair and Myrtle A. (Leavitt) Cormack; wasborn at Newton, Mass., Sept. 12, 1896. He graduated from theBoston Latin School, class of 1913, and from Bowdoin College, A.B. 1917. He enlisted at Brunswick, Me., in April, 1917; trained in theBowdoin College R.O.T.C. from April to June, 1917; was detachedand enlisted in the Naval Air Service in June, 1917; attended theM.I.T. Ground School in Sept. and Oct., and continued trainingat Pensacola, Fla. He qualified as a pilot in March, 1918; was in-structor in the Gunnery School at Pensacola from March till June,1918; was commissioned Ensign on June 12, and ordered to Rock-away, N.Y., for convoy and patrol work, remaining until July,when he was sent overseas to France with the Northern BombingGroup, and stationed at Moutchic-Lacanau, in Aug., and at Parisin Sept. In Oct. he was at Brest, and in Nov. again at Moutchic-Lacanau. After the Armisti

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