New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records (1919) (14782188745)

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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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9, 1917, to Nov. 24, 1917; and atLove Field/Dallas, Tex., from Nov. 28, 1917, to Feb. 23, 1918. Hewas commissioned 2d Lieut. Feb. 16, 1918, and trained at CampDick, Dallas, Tex., Feb. 23 to March 18; Post Field, Fort Sill,Okla., March 18 to April 15, 1918; Camp Dick, April 15 to June29; Taliaferro Field, Fort Worth, Tex., June 29 to July 31. Lieut. Lasell sailed overseas on Aug. 9, 1918, and was stationedat St.-Maixent, France, from Aug. 22 to Sept. 25,1918; at Issoudun,3d Aviation Instruction Centre, Sept. 27 to Oct. 16; with the 354thSquadron, Oct. 20 to Nov. 26, at Antreville. He was then orderedto Saizerais, in the Marbache sector. He was stationed at Tours,2d A.I.C. from Nov. 28 to Dec. 21; and at Bordeaux, Dec. 21 to25. He sailed for home on Dec. 26, 1918, arriving in the U.S. onJan. 7. He was honorably discharged at the U.S. Army GeneralHospital No. 10, Boston, Mass., on Feb. 20, 1919. Brother in Service — Josiah Lasell, 2d, Captain, C. O. 302d Hq. Co., 16th Division. ( 328 )
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FREDERICK ARTHUR KEEP Second Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.S.A., Twenty-Eighth AeroSquadron; Seventy-Eighth Aero SquadronKilled in airplane accident, May 6, 1918 Son of Frederick Heber and Alice (Leavitt) Keep, of Milton,Mass.; was born at Wollaston, Mass., Nov. 23, 1892. He was edu-cated at Milton public schools, Milton Academy, and HarvardCollege, class of 1915. He was a cadet in the Harvard R.O.T.C., 1916 and 1917. Heattended Plattsburg Training Camp from May 13, 1917; was com-missioned 2d Lieut., I.O.R.C., Aug. 15, 1917, and ordered to activeduty at Camp Devens on Aug. 28, 1917. From here in a few dayshe was ordered to the Royal Flying Corps, Camp Borden, Ont.,then to the University of Toronto for courses in military aero-nautics. Leaving there for Fort Worth, Tex., on Nov. 8, 1917, hebecame attached to the 28th Aero Squadron, Taliaferro Field,Fort Hicks, Tex. He was injured in an airplane accident, Nov. 22,1917, when his leg was fractured; and did not report for duty untilabout March 20,