New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . ed to Flying Officers Detachment, Camp Dick, fromJune 28 to July 25; and acted as machine-gun instructor, at WilburWright Field, Fairfield, 0., from July 27 to Aug. 24, 1918. Receiving overseas orders, Lieut. Trider sailed from Hoboken onAug. 30, 1918, landing in Brest on Sept. 12. He trained as a pursuitpilot at the 3d Aviation Instruction Centre, Issoudun, from to Oct. 12, when he was attached to the American AviationAcceptance Park at Orly, until Jan. 20, 1919, ferrying airplanesto the front and to other points. Lie
New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . ed to Flying Officers Detachment, Camp Dick, fromJune 28 to July 25; and acted as machine-gun instructor, at WilburWright Field, Fairfield, 0., from July 27 to Aug. 24, 1918. Receiving overseas orders, Lieut. Trider sailed from Hoboken onAug. 30, 1918, landing in Brest on Sept. 12. He trained as a pursuitpilot at the 3d Aviation Instruction Centre, Issoudun, from to Oct. 12, when he was attached to the American AviationAcceptance Park at Orly, until Jan. 20, 1919, ferrying airplanesto the front and to other points. Lieut. Trider had various narrow escapes from death, eventhough he saw no actual combat. On Oct. 8, 1918, he wrecked aNieuport and was injured. During a bombing-raid at Nancy theauto in which Lieut. Trider and thirteen other aviators were ridingwas struck and rolled down an embankment in the dark. Only oneaviator, Lieut. Richard Banks, was killed, the others having amarvellous escape. Lieut. Trider was honorably discharged at Camp Dix, , onFeb. 23, 1919. [ 324 ]. WILLIAM BARTLETT BACON First Lieutenant, , , Instructor, AerialGunnery School, Second , Tours, France Son of William and Karolen (Bartlett) Bacon of Brookline, Mass.;was born in Brookline, March 26, 1897. He was educated at theCountry Day School, Newton, Mass., and entered Harvard Col-lege with the class of 1919. He graduated from the Curtiss AviationSchool, Buffalo, , in 1916. He enlisted in the Air Service in Boston on May 18, 1917, andwas a member of the first class graduated from the Ground School, On July 15, 1917, before completing the course, Baconreceived overseas orders and sailed for France on July 23, had his preliminary training on Caudrons at the FrenchAviation School at Tours, where he remained from Aug. 16 toSept. 28, 1917. He then received instruction on Nieuport 23-metreand 18-metre machines, at the French School, Avord, from to Oct. 21, 1917. From Oct. 22, 19
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