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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ROWN Ensign, U.S.N.R.F. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hosmer Brown; was born at Salem,Mass., June 27, 1896. He was educated at Phillips Andover Acad-emy, class of 1916, and at the M.I.T., class of 1920. At Andoverhe was a member of the Varsity track team. At M.I.T. he tooka course in Military Science; left to enter Service at end of firstyear. He enlisted in U.S.N.R.F.C. at Washington, D.C., on Aug.29, 1917; attended the Ground School at M.I.T., Nov. 12, 1917,to Feb. 2, 1918. He was stationed at the Naval Air Station, KeyWest, Fla., Feb. 7 to April 2, 1918. On March 19 he was com-missioned Ensign, and on April 9 was ordered to the Naval AirStation at Chatham, Mass., where he was on patrol duty untilOct. 20, acting as Navigation Officer, and one of the Flying Staff.From Oct. 20, 1918, to Jan. 6, 1919, he was on sick-leave, as aresult of influenza and pneumonia, contracted while flying. Hewas relieved from all active duty on Jan. 6, 1919.Married, Jan. 15, 1919, Frances Martine Gray. ( 432 )
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WALLACE J. FALVEY Lieutenant (j.g.), U.S.N.R.F. Son of Timothy James and Mary Elizabeth (Cosgrove) Falveyof Brookline, Mass.; was born at Norwich, Conn., on May 1,1894.He attended the Brookline High and Boston Latin Schools; en-tered Harvard College with the class of 1918, completing his coursein three and one half years. Member of the Institute of 1770,the D.K.E., and the Delta Upsilon fraternities. He enlisted inApril, 1917, and was enrolled in the Flying School at Squantum,Mass., where illness disqualified him from continuing the course.Upon his recovery in July, 1917, he applied for admission to theNaval Reserve Flying Corps, and after twice being rejected, re-gained normal physical condition and was accepted at Washing-ton, D.C., Oct. 28, 1917. He was called into Service in Feb., 1918,and was sent to M.I.T. for a ten weeks Ground-School course,then assigned to Pensacola, Fla., for flight training. There hequalified as pilot, was commissioned Ensign on Aug. 13, 1918, andmade Instr

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