New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . s andserved as Instructor. On finishing there he went to Cazaux, AerialGunnery School, Feb. 28, 1918, and remained there for three weeks,returning to Issoudun to stay until the first of June in charge of oneof the fields. About the first week in June he was sent to the Amer-ican Acceptance Park at Orly, near Paris, and from there was as-signed as tester of planes at Villacoublay, a French field near Orly. He received orders to go to the front and joined the 95th AeroSquadron, 1st Pursuit Group, on June 15, 1918. On July 14, 19
New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . s andserved as Instructor. On finishing there he went to Cazaux, AerialGunnery School, Feb. 28, 1918, and remained there for three weeks,returning to Issoudun to stay until the first of June in charge of oneof the fields. About the first week in June he was sent to the Amer-ican Acceptance Park at Orly, near Paris, and from there was as-signed as tester of planes at Villacoublay, a French field near Orly. He received orders to go to the front and joined the 95th AeroSquadron, 1st Pursuit Group, on June 15, 1918. On July 14, 1918,he was killed in action, falling near Chamery, about 3 or 4 kilo-metres southeast of Fere-en-Tardenois. Brothers in Service — Theodore Roosevelt, 26th Infantry, 1st Division, (20 months with ; gassed and wounded). Kermit Roosevelt, Capt. , Light Armored Motor Bat-tery, Mesopotamia; Capt. , Field Artillery (20 monthswith ). Archibald Roosevelt, Capt. , 26th Infantry (14 monthswith ; invalided home). [ 70 ]. JASON SOLON HUNT First Lieutenant, , , Twenty-Seventh AeroSquadron, First Pursuit GroupKilled inaction, Aug. 1, 1918Son of Bertron A. and Nettie B. Hunt; was born at Johnson, Vt.,Jan. 24, 1894. He prepared for college at the High School inJohnson, Vt., and graduated from the University of Vermont in1915. He entered the Harvard Law School in the fall of 1915, leav-ing there at the end of the second year to attend the 1st OfficersTraining Camp at Plattsburg in May, 1917. At the time of his grad-uation from the University of Vermont, he was captain of theUniversity Battalion and the following Nov. he was commissioned1st Lieut, in the State Guard. In July, 1917, he was one of 25 men sent from Plattsburg toToronto to take up Aviation. From Canada he was sent to Texasto continue his training, where he was commissioned 1st Lieut, inFeb., 1918, and sent overseas attached to the 27th Squadron, 1stPursuit Group. With
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