New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . hich he attended for three months. From Aug. 14,1917, to March 4, 1918, he trained with , and withthe Detachment of Flying Cadets, at Kelly Field, No. 2, San An-tonio, Tex. He was commissioned 2d Lieut., , Signal onMarch 4, 1918. From March 4 to July, 1918, he continued trainingat Camp Dick, Dallas, Tex. and at Fort Sill, Okla. Lieut. Coward was ordered overseas in July, 1918, with the Avia-tion Section (unattached). Later he was transferred to the 1st AeroSquadron, with which he saw active service until t
New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . hich he attended for three months. From Aug. 14,1917, to March 4, 1918, he trained with , and withthe Detachment of Flying Cadets, at Kelly Field, No. 2, San An-tonio, Tex. He was commissioned 2d Lieut., , Signal onMarch 4, 1918. From March 4 to July, 1918, he continued trainingat Camp Dick, Dallas, Tex. and at Fort Sill, Okla. Lieut. Coward was ordered overseas in July, 1918, with the Avia-tion Section (unattached). Later he was transferred to the 1st AeroSquadron, with which he saw active service until the signing of theArmistice. He was for seven weeks in the Argonne sector, on obser-vation duty; and took part in the fight at Argonne Forest. Later, hemade flights over many of the contested battle-fields, includingVerdun and the French trenches in the Champagne sector. Lieut. Coward was with the Army of Occupation at Weissen-thurm, Germany, with the 1st Aero Squadron, 3d Army. Brother in Service — Warren F. Coward, Private, , Ordnance Department. [ 168 ]. * WILLIAM KEY BOND EMERSON, Jr. Second Lieutenant, , , Escadrille C 21, andTwelfth Aero SquadronKilled in action, May 14, 1918 Son of William Key Bond and Maria Holmes (Furman) Emerson;was born in New York City, April 9, 1894. He graduated from Mid-dlesex School, Concord, Mass., in 1912, and entered Harvard Col-lege with the class of 1916. He left college in his sophomore year tojoin the American Ambulance Field Service, and served with theUnit in France for six months, in 1915; but returned to graduatewith his class at Harvard in June, 1916. In 1917 he again joined the American Ambulance Field Service,and went this time to Serbia, attached to the Army of the received the Croix de Guerre with one Star, for conspicuousgallantry in rescuing wounded under fire, near Monastir, in Aug.,1917. Returning to France he was commissioned 2d Lieut. He attendedthe French Officers Artillery School at Valdahon; an
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