New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . e 7th Aviation Instruc-tion Centre at Clermont-Ferrand, to take up bombing, completingthis course about the first of July, when he joined the 96th AeroSquadron then stationed at Amanty, Meuse. He remained with the96th Squadron during July and Aug., making frequent bombingraids over the territory between Verdun and Metz. On Sept. 4, 1918, Lieut. McLennan and his pilot, Lieut. A. Had-den Alexander, were both severely wounded in an action withenemy planes over Conflans. With great heroism the woundedpilot was able to bring the pl
New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . e 7th Aviation Instruc-tion Centre at Clermont-Ferrand, to take up bombing, completingthis course about the first of July, when he joined the 96th AeroSquadron then stationed at Amanty, Meuse. He remained with the96th Squadron during July and Aug., making frequent bombingraids over the territory between Verdun and Metz. On Sept. 4, 1918, Lieut. McLennan and his pilot, Lieut. A. Had-den Alexander, were both severely wounded in an action withenemy planes over Conflans. With great heroism the woundedpilot was able to bring the plane safely back to the home was in the hospital at Chalet Guyon until Jan. 3, 1919,the Armistice meanwhile having been signed. He was sent toGondrecourt for reassignment to duty. From there he was detailedto duty with freight trains running between the advance the Army of Occupation in Germany; this duty lasting untilMarch 5, 1919, when he was ordered back to the He washonorably discharged at Garden City, , in June, 1919. [ 142 ]. ROY WALES HALL First Lieutenant , , Ninetieth Aero SquadronFirst Observation Group, and Ninety-Sixth AeroSquadron, First Bombardment Group Son of George E. and Anna Gertrude (Bachelder) Hall, of Need-ham, Mass.; was born in Dorchester, M^ass., Oct. 13, 1895. He waseducated at the Warren Private School and English High School,where he was a member of the track team. He was 1st Lieut, in theUnited Boys Brigade of America. In the summer of 1916 he at-tended the Plattsburg Camp. On May 4, 1917, Lieut. Hall enlisted in Boston for the PlattsburgOfficers Training Camp; after which training he attended School, and the School at Mineola, He was orderedoverseas, and stationed at the 3d and later at the 7th AviationInstruction Centre, attached to the 90th Aero Squadron and the96th Squadron, operating in the Toul sector, France. He hadqualified for his commission Sept. 11, 1917, having finished
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