New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . of 1917, and was sentoverseas to continue his training in England, at Oxford, Grantham,Lincoln, Tadcaster, and Turnberry; also at Ayr, Scotland. This course extended from Sept., 1917, to March, 1918, and onApril 2, 1918, he was ordered to France where he was attached tothe 17th Aero Squadron, and sent to the front. He was on activeduty until Aug. 3, when he had two weeks furlough which he spentin England. On returning to France he was made Flight Com-mander and was leading his patrol in a battle with enemy planes onAug. 26, wh
New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . of 1917, and was sentoverseas to continue his training in England, at Oxford, Grantham,Lincoln, Tadcaster, and Turnberry; also at Ayr, Scotland. This course extended from Sept., 1917, to March, 1918, and onApril 2, 1918, he was ordered to France where he was attached tothe 17th Aero Squadron, and sent to the front. He was on activeduty until Aug. 3, when he had two weeks furlough which he spentin England. On returning to France he was made Flight Com-mander and was leading his patrol in a battle with enemy planes onAug. 26, when he was seen to fall behind the German lines, nearBapaume. He was at first reported missing, and later his familywere informed that he was alive and a prisoner in Germany. It wasnot until more than six months after he was reported missing thatthe War Department announced that Lieut. Frost had died on theday he was shot down, at the main dressing-station at Boursiers,France. He was buried in the military cemetery on the Cambrai-Bapaume road at Boursiers. [ 270 ]. *JAMES GRANTLEY HALL First Lieutenant, Sixtieth Squadron, Royal Air ForceReported killed in action, Aug. 8, 1918Son of Charles Edwin and Edith J. Hall, of Maiden, Mass.; wasborn in West Dennis, Mass., Jan. 8, 1896. He was educated in theMedford and Maiden High Schools, and at Burdett Business Col-lege. He left college to enlist. He won several medals and ribbons forrunning-races. In Jan., 1913, he was awarded a silver medal by theHumane Society for bravery in trying to save the life of a chum ina skating accident. He enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps, at Boston, in July, 1917,after having been several times refused by the because helacked half an inch of the required height. He went to Toronto andtrained at different camps in Canada and later in Texas. He wascommissioned 2d Lieut. Nov., 1917, in Toronto, and sailed overseason Dec. 22, 1917. He landed in England and was sent to the front,in France. He was in acti
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