. New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . ch heserved in the Department of Rents, Requisition, and Packard had two brothers also in the Service. (Portrait onopposite page.) LAWRENCE EARLY Second Lieutenant, , Son of Bernard and M. Alice Early; was born at Newton, Mass.,July 27, 1896. He was educated at the Newton High School, andat Holy Cross College. He enlisted in the Air Service at Boston,Aug. 20, 1917. He attended the Ground Schools at the ,and at Princeton University. He trained in flying at TaliaferroField, Fort Worth, Tex., and
. New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . ch heserved in the Department of Rents, Requisition, and Packard had two brothers also in the Service. (Portrait onopposite page.) LAWRENCE EARLY Second Lieutenant, , Son of Bernard and M. Alice Early; was born at Newton, Mass.,July 27, 1896. He was educated at the Newton High School, andat Holy Cross College. He enlisted in the Air Service at Boston,Aug. 20, 1917. He attended the Ground Schools at the ,and at Princeton University. He trained in flying at TaliaferroField, Fort Worth, Tex., and at the Gunnery Schools, TaliaferroField, and Wilbur Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. He then pro-ceeded overseas, and was assigned to the 3d at Issoudun,France, for advanced training. He was subsequently transferredto the school at He was then detailed as StaffPilot to the 4th Artillery Aerial Observers School at Meucon,France. He was commissioned 2d Lieut., June 17, 1918, and washonorably discharged at Garden City, , Feb. 8, 1919. [ 260 ]. * LEROY AMOS SWAN Second Lieutenant, , in airplane accident, June 19, 1918Born at Norwich, Conn., June 5, 1894. He was educated at theNorwich Free Academy, and at the Mass. Institute of Technology,class of 1917. He entered the Service at the , Oct., 1917, andattended the Army Aviation School. He trained at Wilbur WrightField, Dayton, Ohio, and was there commissioned 2d Lieut., ,Signal Corps. On June 19, 1918, he was killed at Wilbur WrightField, when his machine collapsed. (Portrait on opposite page.) DAVID W. GORDON Second Lieutenant, , , Second ProvisionalSquadron, Ellington Field, Houston, Texas Son of William W. and Harriet (Covil) Gordon; was born atHazardsville, Conn., May 31, 1894. He attended the Central HighSchool, Springfield, Mass., where he was president of the seniordebating society and captain of the crew. He graduated fromWesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., where
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