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English: First Lieutenant Stafford Leighton Brown (1895 - 1918), A.S., U.S.A. Killed in airplane accident, Sept. 28, 1918. Son of George W. and Eugenie (Stafford) Brown; was born at Newton, Mass., Oct. 25, 1895. He was a graduate of the Newton High School, and entered Dartmouth College in the class of 1920. At college he was captain of the tennis team, and played on the football and hockey teams. He attended the Plattsburg Training Camp in 1915; and in March, 1917, went overseas to France as driver in the American Ambulance Field Service. He served for five months, chiefly in the vicinity of Verdun, and then joined the Air Service. He trained at Tours and Issoudun, and was commissioned 1st Lieut, in June, 1918. In at least three instances, before the accident in which his life was sacrificed, Lieut. Brown escaped fatal consequences solely by his remarkable skill as pilot. On one of these occasions his companion was killed. He had almost finished formation flying in the Seventh Class, when he was killed by a fall due to a defect in his machine, on Sept. 28, 1918, while flying a Spad monoplace to the front, in the Arrondissement de Mantes. He was buried at Hargeville, Suresnes, France.

Identifier: NewEnglandaviatVol2Tick (find matches)
Title: New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937, ed
Subjects: Biography Aeronautics World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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. 25, 1895. He was a graduate of the NewtonHigh School, and entered Dartmouth College in the class of 1920.At college he was captain of the tennis team, and played on thefootball and hockey teams. He attended the Plattsburg Training Camp in 1915; and inMarch, 1917, went overseas to France as driver in the AmericanAmbulance Field Service. He served for five months, chiefly in thevicinity of Verdun, and then joined the Air Service. He trained atTours and Issoudun, and was commissioned 1st Lieut, in June,1918. In at least three instances, before the accident in which his lifewas sacrificed, Lieut. Brown escaped fatal consequences solely byhis remarkable skill as pilot. On one of these occasions his com-panion was killed. He had almost finished formation flying in theSeventh Class, when he was killed by a fall due to a defect in hismachine, on Sept. 28, 1918, while flying a Spad monoplace to thefront, in the Arrondissement de Mantes. He was buried at Harge-ville, Suresnes, France. ( 132 )
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*STURGIS PISHON First Lieutenant, A.S., U.S.A., Three Hundred Forty-FirstAero SquadronKilled in airplane accident, Oct. 26, 1918 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Sturgis Pishon; was born at Las Vegas,New Mexico, May 30, 1888. When a boy he removed to WestRoxbury, Mass., where he attended the public schools. He grad-uated from the English High School, Boston, in 1906, as a Frank-lin Medal scholar, and entered Dartmouth College in the class of1910, graduating there magna cum laude. He was prominent inathletics, playing on the Varsity football team, where he was fa-mous as quarter-back; he also played baseball and hockey, andbelonged to the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity and the Casque andGauntlet Society; was member of Phi Beta Kappa; was permanentsecretary of his class. On leaving college he entered the wool busi-ness and later associated himself with an advertising firm, withwhich he was connected at the time of his entry into the U.S.Service. He enlisted Aug. 8, 1917, at the Army Aviation Grou

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