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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ear captain of the football team; also a member ofthe basket-ball team. In the fall of 1910 he entered the Universityof California, graduating in 1914; there he was one of the leadingathletes; he was pitcher on the Varsity baseball team, and memberof the Theta Delta Chi fraternity, the Wolfs Head Club, and theGun Club. He enlisted at Brookline, Mass., in Nov., 1917, and in Feb., 1918,entered the School of Military Aeronautics, at Princeton, N.J.,where, in a class of ninety, he was one of nineteen to successfullycomplete the course. He was then ordered to Camp Dick, Dallas,Tex., in April, 1918. During the drive for the Third Liberty Loanhe was chosen as the speaker to represent his Squadron in thatpart of Texas. About the middle of May, 1918, he was sent toRockwell Field, San Diego, Cal., where he was killed in an aero-plane collision on June 3, 1918. He was buried at Canton Junction,Mass. Brother in Service — George H. Chapman, 1st Lieut., U.S.A., 15th Aero Construc-tion Co. ( 140 )
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* ROGER S. DIX, Jr. Second Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.S.A. Killed in airplane accident, May 15, 1918 Son of Roger S. and Louise (Parrish) Dix; was born at Boston,Mass., Dec. 9, 1896. He was educated at the Country Day School,and at Harvard College, entering with the class of 1918. He leftHarvard at the end of his junior year, and attended the Platts-burg Training Camp, in 1915, and again in 1916. He served withthe American Ambulance Field Service, Section 1, at Verdun, in1917, at which time his section received a Citation Militaire. InNov., 1917, he enlisted in France, in the U.S. Air Service, but wasforced to remain inactive during the winter, owing to lack ofplanes. In the spring of 1918 he was one of twenty-five to vol-unteer for instruction as bombing observers in the French Bomb-ing School at Le Crotoy, Somme, France, with the understandingthat they should be sent at once to the front for the spring offen-sive. He was commissioned 2d Lieut., May 12, 1918. Lieut. Dix had completed his

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