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

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eola, N.Y., and was commissioned 1st Lieut, onDec. 10, 1917. From Dec, 1917, to March, 1918, he was at LakeCharles, La.; and at Mineola, N.Y., in March, 1918. Receivingoverseas orders, Lieut. Thayer sailed for England on March 4, andwent from England to Issoudun, France, and from there to Haus-siment-sur-Marne. He was first attached to the 99th Aero Squad-ron, then to the 12th Squadron, with which he went through theSt.-Mihiel and Argonne-Meuse offensives, acting as Flight Com-mander from the end of Aug. until early in Oct., 1918. He was thentransferred to the 95th Pursuit Squadron, as chasse pilot, andserved until the Armistice, when he was attached to Aviation Head-quarters, at Paris, going as courier to England. He returned to theU.S. in April, 1919. Lieut. Thayer was cited in General Orders Sept. 13, 1918: Forgallantry in action near St.-Mihiel, France. Brothers in Service —■ William G. Thayer, Jr., 2d Lieut. U.S. Infantry.James Appleton Thayer, 2d Lieut. U.S. Infantry. ( 68 )
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QUENTIN ROOSEVELT First Lieutenant, A.S., U.S.A., Ninety-Fifth Aero SquadronFirst Pursuit GroupKilled in action, July 14, 1918Son of Theodore and Edith Kermit (Carow) Roosevelt; was bornat Washington, D.C., Nov. 19, 1898. He was educated at GrotonSchool, Groton, Mass., the Episcopal High School, Alexandria,Va., and at Harvard College, class of 1919. Prior to enlistment heattended the Officers Training Camp at Plattsburg. He enlisted about April 30, 1917, at Oyster Bay, N.Y., andtrained for the Air Service at Mineola, N.Y. He was commissioned1st Lieut, in April, 1917, and sailed overseas on July 23, 1917, onthe S.S. Orduna, landing at Liverpool. From there he was sent toParis, where he remained at Aviation Headquarters until Oct.,when he was sent to Issoudun in command of the flying cadets andserved as Instructor. On finishing there he went to Cazaux, AerialGunnery School, Feb. 28, 1918, and remained there for three weeks,returning to Issoudun to stay until the first of June in charge

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