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
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lege,class of 1913. He also took extra courses at M.I.T. Previous to enlistment he attended the Plattsburg TrainingCamp for two summers, qualifying as a sharpshooter. He enlistedon Sept. 29, 1917, and trained at the Curtiss School in Buffalo,N.Y., at M.I.T. Ground School, and at Fort Worth, Tex. He wascommissioned 1st Lieut, in Jan., 1918. He sailed overseas in May,1918, and was first attached to Squadron 182; afterwards toSquadron 88. He piloted a number of aeroplanes from England toFrance, making his headquarters at different aerodromes in Eng-land. Six weeks before the Armistice was signed he flew aboutVerdun and Sedan. He sailed for America the last of Dec, 1918,and was honorably discharged at Garden City, N.Y., in April,1919. Married, May 10, 1919, Catharine Rush, daughter of Com-mandant Rush, of the Navy Yard, Boston. Father in Service — Godfrey Lowell Cabot, Lieut., Aviation Aide, First NavalDistrict. Brother in Service — Thomas Dudley Cabot, 2d Lieut., A.S., U.S.A. ( 156 )
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THOMAS DUDLEY CABOT Second Lieutenant, A.S., U.SA., Instructor at Kelly Field Texas Son of Lieut. Godfrey Lowell and Maria (Moors) Cabot; was born atCambridge, Mass., on May 1,1898. He was educated at the Browneand Nichols School, Evans School, Arizona, and at Harvard Col-lege, class of 1919. He attended the Plattsburg Training Camp in the summer of1916 (sharpshooter), and trained with the Harvard Regiment. Hetook a course in aeronautics at the M.I.T. Ground School, andtrained as a flyer at the Curtiss School, Buffalo, N.Y. On Aug. 27,1917, he enlisted as a private, 1st class, A.S., S.E.R.C., at Ithaca,N.Y. He trained at the M.I.T. Ground School during Oct. andNov., 1917; was sent to Kelly Field, Tex., on Dec. 1, 1917, wherehe was attached to the cadet wing for further training as a flyer.He passed the R.M.A. tests on Jan. 17, and was commissioned2d Lieut., A.S.S.R.C., Jan. 31, 1918. He was in charge of officersbarracks during Feb., March, and April; and at the InstructorsSchool in Ma

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