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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
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feel the zip of the bullets as every part of the plane was struck. At every
house a Boche would snipe at him with rifles, and he passed under a bar-
rage the Huns were laying on the trenches with heavy artillery. Finally
he passed over the zigzag line of trenches, saw familiar uniforms and the
scout left him. Again he showed his coolness by landing at a Belgian air-
drome and rushing the unconscious Robinson to a hospital, undoubtedly
saving his life. The Belgian Major was very enthusiastic over his conduct,
and it is understood was going to recommend both Dick and Robinson for
medals for heroic conduct. Whether this will go through, I don't know.
The fatal accident happened about 1.15 the afternoon of Oct. 25. Just
after lunch he went out to make a short motor test. The motor was bad,
and he crashed into an earth embankment. His passenger was thrown
thirty feet and the machine instantly burst into flames. But Dick did not
know because death was instantaneous and painless. So passed a gallant
officer, a daring flyer and a most Christian gentleman.

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*FRANK W. RILEY
Ensign, U.S.N.R.F., Instructor in Aviation, Naval Air
Station, Miami, Florida
Died of pneumonia, Oct. 12, 1918

Son of Frank J. and Ellen M. (Hart) Riley of Dorchester, Mass.;
was born in Boston, on Aug. 13, 1894. He was educated at the
English High School in Boston, and at the Roxbury Latin School.
When war was declared, he was in the employ of the Schumaker-
Santry Co. of Boston. He enlisted on July 25, 1917, at the Charles-
town Navy Yard, and was assigned to the Ground School at M.I.T.
He was sent from there, Jan. 19, 1918, to Key West, Fla., where
he was commissioned Ensign on March 25, 1918. He was subse-
quently detailed to the Naval Air Station at Miami, Fla., as In-
structor in Aviation.
From Miami, he and Electrician Walter P. Clark set out on
Friday, June 7, 1918, in a regular U.S.N, hydroplane, in search of
the German submarine which was then terrorizing the Atlantic
Coast. Before they had gone 25 miles from shore, engine trouble
developed and they were forced to descend, landing the Gulf

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