Identifier: NewEnglandaviatVol2Tick (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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1919. Brother in Service — Edward Whittier Hellier, 1st Lieut., R.A.F. EDWARD WHITTIER HELLIER First Lieutenant, R.A.F., Cranwell AerodromeLincolnshire, England Son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Hellier; was born at Boston, Mass.,Dec. 11, 1895. He was educated at St. Marks School, Southboro,the Florida-Adirondack School, and at M.I.T. He enlisted in Aug., 1917, in the Royal Air Force, at Toronto,Can., and trained at the School of Military Aeronautics, Toronto,from Aug. to Nov., 1917. From Nov., 1917, to Jan., 1918, he wasattached to the Northern Canadian Training Squadron. He wascommissioned 2d Lieut., R.F.C., in Jan., 1918, and was appointedInstructor at the Aerial Fighting School, Camp Hicks, Tex.,where he remained until April, 1918. He was then commissioned1st Lieut., R.A.F., in April, 1918, and ordered overseas to theCranwell Aerodrome, Lincolnshire, Eng., Aug., 1918, where hewas stationed until the end of the war. Brother in Service — Walter H. Hellier, 2d Lieut., R.A.F. ( 396 )
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JAMES ARNOLD LOWELL Cadet, R.A.F., Eighty-Fifth Canadian Training SquadronSon of James and Mary Wharton (Churchill) Lowell, of ChestnutHill, Mass.; was born at Boston, Aug. 15, 1899. He was preparedfor college at the Country Day School in Newton, Mass., and atthe Evans School in Mesa, Arizona. He entered Harvard Collegein Sept., 1917, only to leave before the close of his freshman yearto join the Air Service. Being too young to enter the U.S. Service,he enlisted, on May 15,1918, with the Royal Air Force, in Canada.Cadet Lowell received his training at various Canadian camps:at the Recruits Depot in Toronto; the Discipline Camp at LongBranch; the School of Aeronautics at Toronto; the School ofArmament at Hamilton; and at the Flying Camp at Deseronto,where he was first attached to a Ground Instruction Section, andlater to the 85th Canadian Training Squadron. He received hishonorable discharge from the British Service upon the cessationof training for the Royal Air Force in Canada, Dec.

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