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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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Mass., May 7, 1896. He was educated at theEverett High School, and Northeastern College. In the summer of1916 he attended the Plattsburg Training Camp. He enlisted, Oct.30, 1917, at Cambridge, and was trained in Aviation at M.I.T.Ground School; elementary flying and aerial gunnery at TaliaferroField, Fort Worth, Tex.; machine-gunnery at Wilbur Wright Field,Dayton, O. He was commissioned 2d Lieut. June 17, 1918, andsailed overseas on Sept. 16, 1918, reporting at Issoudun, France,for further training as pursuit pilot. After completing his instruc-tion he was ordered to the 2d A.I.C. at Tours, France, for dutyas staff pilot. He remained there until ordered back to the U.S. onMarch 1, 1919. He reported at Garden City and was assigned to acasual company of Air Service men to be brought to Camp Devensfor discharge. After completion of duties at Camp Devens he washonorably discharged from Service on April 22, 1919. Father in Service — William H. Bazley, in the Spanish-American War. ( 458 )
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HARRY FOSTER MURCHIE Second Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.S.A.Son of Henry S. and Harriet H. C. (Caldwell) Murchie, andgrandson of Brigadier-General John C. Caldwell; was born inCalais, Me., Nov. 14, 1893. He was educated at the Calais HighSchool, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and Dartmouth Col-lege. At both school and college he was a Varsity letter man.Prior to his enlistment, Aug. 15, 1917, he had been in trainingat camp at Gettysburg, Pa., in 1913. He attended the GroundSchool, M.I.T., Aug.-Dec, 1917, and the Ground School atPrinceton, beginning Jan., 1918. He was later transferred to CampDick, Dallas, Tex., and to Park Field, Memphis, Tenn., wherehe was commissioned 2d Lieut. Sept. 21, 1918. He was thenordered to Post Field, Fort Sill, Okla., and was stationed at Talia-ferro Field, Fort Worth, Tex., where he received his honorabledischarge, Jan. 28, 1919. WILLIAM INGERSOLL BOWDITCH Second Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.S.A. Son of Ernest W. and Susan (Swann) Bowditch, of Milton, Mass.;was bor

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