New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . land. These were amongthe first 50 aviators ready for service abroad. He went to Oxford,Eng., on Aug. 12, 1917; and having trained there was sent to Stam-ford, Eng., for scout-patrol work on the coast. Later he was sentto the Flying School at Ayr, Scotland, to test planes. On March 3,1918, he was commissioned 1st Lieut., and was ordered across theChannel. Lieut. Nathan was to have sailed for France on March 22,but two days before that date he was killed at Ayr, Scotland, whiletesting a Spad plane, a wing of which collapsed, so
New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . land. These were amongthe first 50 aviators ready for service abroad. He went to Oxford,Eng., on Aug. 12, 1917; and having trained there was sent to Stam-ford, Eng., for scout-patrol work on the coast. Later he was sentto the Flying School at Ayr, Scotland, to test planes. On March 3,1918, he was commissioned 1st Lieut., and was ordered across theChannel. Lieut. Nathan was to have sailed for France on March 22,but two days before that date he was killed at Ayr, Scotland, whiletesting a Spad plane, a wing of which collapsed, so that it was given a funeral with full military honors, both British andAmerican. A letter to his father from the English Lieutenant in commandof the School at Ayr says: Your sons death was a very severe loss to all those who knew him inEngland. He was not only extremely popular and well liked, but an excel-lent soldier, and I have heard from many sources that he was consideredthe best American pilot that had ever been to the Flying School at Ayr. [ 276 ]. GEORGE E. SPRAGUE (A.), , Two Hundred Seventeenth SquadronRoyal Air ForceSeventh Squadron, Northern Bombing Group, Son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sprague, of Saugus, Mass.; wasborn in Boston, Mass., on Nov. 16, 1896. He was educated atthe Saugus High School, where he played football and basket-ballfor four years, and at Boston University. He enlisted in Naval Aviation early in April, 1917, in Boston,and after a few weeks training at the Ground School in Pensacola,Fla., sailed for France on May 25, 1917, as a member of theFirst Aeronautical Detachment, , which was the first officialunit of forces to land in France, disembarking at ,June 7, 1917. Sprague was designated as an observer and assigned to theCentre dAviation Maritime, at , on the Mediterraneancoast. Here he took the French seaplane observers course. He wasthen ordered to the Aerial Gunnery School at Cazaux, whe
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