New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . e on Feb. 20, 1919, and was buried at Chatillon-sur-Seine onFeb. 22, 1919. Lieut. Messers superior officer wrote concerning his death: Raymond joined us as a pilot shortly after the Second Corps Aeronau-tical School was organized at Chatillon-sur-Seine. I was in charge of theflying at that school from its organization. It did not take many days tofind what a really valuable man your son was, and he was at once put towork as an instructor in Sopwith and Breguet planes, in addition to hisduties as a staff pilot. He was a skilful
New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . e on Feb. 20, 1919, and was buried at Chatillon-sur-Seine onFeb. 22, 1919. Lieut. Messers superior officer wrote concerning his death: Raymond joined us as a pilot shortly after the Second Corps Aeronau-tical School was organized at Chatillon-sur-Seine. I was in charge of theflying at that school from its organization. It did not take many days tofind what a really valuable man your son was, and he was at once put towork as an instructor in Sopwith and Breguet planes, in addition to hisduties as a staff pilot. He was a skilful pilot; his judgment was good; and hisattitude toward his equals and superiors was one of unvaried was extremely popular, and to quote one of the old officers, No acci-dent ever hit the fellows quite so hard as Messers death. Like the restof us, he found it a source of great regret, not being able to get to the the training of observers was so important that he could not be ever a man served his country well, it was Messer. [ 308 ]. * EUGENE DORR MORSE Second Lieutenant, , in airplane accident, Nov. 6, 1918Son of Fitz Albert and Helen D. (Cotting) Morse; was born inBrookline, Mass., Dec. 7, 1895. He was educated at the CountryDay School, Boston; and at Harvard College, class of 1919. Atschool he played baseball and football, and was captain of thefootball team in 1914. At college he was assistant manager of hisfreshman baseball team, and 2d assistant manager of the Harvard,1917, hockey team. He left college in his sophomore year to enlist, on Oct. 23, 1917,at Boston. He received his ground training at and CornellUniversity, graduating on Jan. 26, 1918, and was assigned toEllington Field, Houston, Tex., for flying instruction. He passedhis reserve military aviator test on May 2, and was commissioned2d Lieut, in the Air Service on that date. He was then assigned foradvanced training in reconnaissance successively to Camp D
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