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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ere heproved himself the best shot with machine gun in the division. Hewas commissioned 2d Lieut, in Toronto, in Nov., 1917, and sailedoverseas Dec. 14, 1917, continuing his training in Stockbridge andLangmere near Chichester, Eng. There he had about completed hiscourse and was eagerly awaiting orders to be sent to France, whenhe was killed in a collision on April 7, 1918. Before going overseas, Lieut. Craigie wrote to his mother: I thank God that I have been accepted to take part in this damnableslaughter for the freedom of future generations and the race. Had I heldback I should feel myself a traitor to the whole civilized world. Later he wrote: Certainly I forgive you for not allowing me to get into the fray sooner,although it has grieved me much not to have been one of the first to putthe harness on in the great cause for freedom and right. However, mayGod permit me to reach the German lines. He was buried with full military honors at St. Andrews Church,Oving, Sussex, Eng. ( 268 )
Text Appearing After Image:
* HENRY BRADLEY FROST First Lieutenant, Seventeenth Aero SquadronKilled in action, Aug. 26, 1918Son of Frank Clifton and Mattie (Bradley) Frost; was born atArlington, Mass., Aug. 8, 1892. He prepared for college at theArlington High School, graduated from Dartmouth in 1914, andfrom the Thayer School of Civil Engineering in 1915. While incollege he played on the Dartmouth hockey team. In July, 1916, he joined the National Guard, in Iowa, and thefollowing year enlisted in the Aviation Service. He attended theGround School, M.I.T., during the summer of 1917, and was sentoverseas to continue his training in England, at Oxford, Grantham,Lincoln, Tadcaster, and Turnberry; also at Ayr, Scotland. This course extended from Sept., 1917, to March, 1918, and onApril 2, 1918, he was ordered to France where he was attached tothe 17th Aero Squadron, and sent to the front. He was on activeduty until Aug. 3, when he had two weeks furlough which he spentin England. On returning to France he was made Fl

Note About Images