. New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . ordered to activeofficial observers flying duty near the Toul sector. On Sept. 17, 1918, while flying with his pilot, Lieut. William A. Bradfield ofDallas, Tex., the motor went dead and he was forced to descend,and was captured by the Germans. For a month he was reportedmissing in action, but on Oct. 15 was reported unwounded anda prisoner at Landshut, Germany. Upon landing from their plane on Sept. 17, Lieut. Clark and hispilot were taken to Joeuf, in Lorraine, questioned closely and trans-ferred to Karlsruhe, Baden, by tra
. New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . ordered to activeofficial observers flying duty near the Toul sector. On Sept. 17, 1918, while flying with his pilot, Lieut. William A. Bradfield ofDallas, Tex., the motor went dead and he was forced to descend,and was captured by the Germans. For a month he was reportedmissing in action, but on Oct. 15 was reported unwounded anda prisoner at Landshut, Germany. Upon landing from their plane on Sept. 17, Lieut. Clark and hispilot were taken to Joeuf, in Lorraine, questioned closely and trans-ferred to Karlsruhe, Baden, by train, and finally to Landshut andVillingen, about thirty kilometres north of the Swiss border. OnNov. 25, after many faithless promises, they were released, andproceeded to Konstanz, thence to the Swiss border. Lieut. Clark was one of the first American aviators and ex-prisoners of war to be returned to the , arriving on Jan. 18, 1919. He was honorably discharged in Jan., 1919, and is now at-tached to the Experiment Station at the Rhode Island StateCollege. [54]. LEO BERNARD CAUCHON First Lieutenant, , , Twenty-Fourth AeroSquadron, First Army Observation Group Son of Phelias, and Zelia Cote Cauchon, of Providence, ; wasborn Sept. 29, 1895. He attended the Rhode Island School of De-sign. Prior to the war he was for sixteen months a member oftroop N, Cavalry. On May 11, 1917, he enlisted at Providence , and was sentto the Plattsburg Training Camp, May 11 to July 16, 1917. Fromthen until Sept. 15, 1917, he attended the Ground School atPrinceton, He sailed overseas for France, arriving Oct. 28, 1917. From Dec. 25, 1917, to April, 1918, he trained at the EcoledAviation, at Chateauroux, France, and from April until July, 1918, at Issoudun, where he was commissioned 1st Lieut, in June,1918. He concluded his training at Tours, where he was stationedfrom July to Aug. 23, 1918, when he was attached to the 24thAero Squadron, and with them saw service until Dec
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