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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ing Officer of a construction squadron, at 2d A.I.C., beingurged to retain this position for duration of the war. At his own request he was transferred back to active service andtrained at Tours and Issoudun for reconnaissance pilot. He wascommissioned 1st Lieut, on Sept. 8, 1918. On Sept. 9 he was sentto Bar-le-Duc with the 50th Squadron, and on the morning of theSt.-Mihiel drive, Sept. 12, he was despatched on a dangerous re-connaissance mission, in D.H. 4 Liberty plane. Four hours later hewas shot down in flames at Pont-a-Mousson, back of the Germanlines, and instantly killed. His mission was to see whether theGermans were withdrawing or reinforcing their lines at a veryimportant point. As Lieut. Stevens had been up four hours beforehe was shot down, it was believed that he had accomplished hismission and had subsequently been lost in the heavy rain and lowhanging clouds. He was buried at the military cemetery at Thiau-court. Married, June 27, 1917, Mary Elizabeth Carpenter. ( 62 )
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JOHN RICHARD EDWARDS, Jr. First Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.SA., Ninety-Ninth AeroSquadron, First Observation Group Son of John Richard and Harriet (DeWolfe) Edwards, of Bristol,R.L; was born in Washington, D.C., Oct. 21, 1896. He was edu-cated at the public schools of Portsmouth, N.H., EpiscopalAcademy, Philadelphia, Friends School, Washington, D.C., andBowdoin College to the second semester of his junior year. He completed the course of military instruction at the Platts-burg Camp of 1916. Later that year he enrolled for naval instruc-tion and served on the U.S.S. Virginia during the months ofSept. and Oct. In Jan., 1917, he volunteered for duty as an ambulance driveron the French front. Early in Feb., 1917, he enrolled in that serv-ice, took passage for France, and served for six months in theVerdun and Champagne sectors. After completing the period for which he volunteered as anambulance driver, he enlisted in Paris as a private in the AmericanAviation Service. He was a member of the fi

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