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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s buried in Lebanon, N.H. He was to havereceived his commission after this last flight, in which he and Lieut.Roland Winterton met their death. The two New Englanders,Cadet Jones and his pilot, Lieut. Winterton of South Boston, hadjust finished their daily lesson or stunt, and were preparing tocome down, when it was noticed that they were in a tail-spin;whether intentionally or not will never be known. They were un-able to recover, and dashed about 2000 feet to the ground. Winter-ton was instantly killed, and Jones lived about an hour. Therewere several other accidents at the Field the same day, all ofwhich were believed to have been due to faulty engines. Lieut.Jones had always been deeply interested in Aviation, and hadhoped to engage in the Aerial Mail Service after the war. Brother in Service — Leon D. Jones, Corporal, Co. C, 104th Infantry. Brother-in-law in Service — Leroy W. Gardiner, Corporal, Co. C. 104th Infantry. Diedfrom wounds received in action, July 7, 1918. ( 316 )
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* ROBERT JAMES BARRON Cadet, A.S., U.SA.Died in Service, trying to rescue drowning comrades Son of James T. and Elizabeth (Nixon) Barron; was born in Port-land, Ore., March 22, 1896. He was educated in the Portland pub-lic schools, Volkmanns School, Boston, and the Boston UniversityCollege of Business Administration. At the time of his enlistment,he was by occupation a salmon-packer, vice-president of theThlinket Packing Co., and Nooksack Packing Co., of Portland,Ore. He was a trained athlete, and when examined for the AviationService, at Portland Ore., he was pronounced the finest specimen ofphysical manhood ever seen by the examiner. He enlisted at Boston, June 3, 1917, as cadet in the AviationService. He entered at once the Ground School, M.I.T., and finish-ing his course there was transferred to the Aviation Field at Essing-ton, Pa. On Aug. 22, 1917, Cadet Barron met his death by drowning, inan attempt to rescue two cadets of his class precipitated into theDelaware River by an acc

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