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Identifier: NewEnglandaviatVol1Tick (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
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drille. He served first at Dunkirk, later atVerdun, then in the Champagne sector. After his sixth official vic-tory he was cited by the French as a chasing pilot of the highestclass, who always seeks combat and leads marvellously the patrolof which he is chief. On April 12 he destroyed alone his fifth enemyaeroplane, and the following day he gained his sixth victory. Hewas then Sergeant of the Foreign Legion, pilot in Spad Squad-ron; and he refused a Captaincy in the American Aviation Serviceto keep the lower rank in his Escadrille. Following Feb., 1918, eleven German planes were officially cred-ited to Lieut. Baylies, and he was in reality a victor more thantwenty times. On May 13, 1918, he was transferred to the U.S. Aviation SignalService Reserve Corps, and commissioned 2d Lieut, in an orderdated May 20, 1918. On June 17, 1918, he fell in combat behindthe German lines, near Montdidier, and was instantly killed. Hewas at first reported missing; a note, however, was thrown over ( 6 )
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FRANK LEAMAN BAYLIES the lines by a German aviator stating that Frank L. Baylies, anAmerican aviator, fell at Rellet and was buried in a private tomb. Besides the Croix de Guerre with palms, the Military Medal, andthe ribbons of the French Legion and of the Lafayette Flying Corps,Lieut. Baylies was given a medal by the Aero Club of America, andthe French Legion of Honor. On May 30,1919, a handsome bronze tablet, given by the Daugh-ters of the American Revolution, Fort Phenix Chapter, New Bed-ford, was placed in the Josiah Swift School which Lieut. Baylies hadattended. The inscription is as follows: In Memory of Frank Leaman Baylies, American Ace, Member of theLafayette Flying Corps, killed in action June 17, 1918. Greater lovehath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. A letter to Lieut. Bayliess mother from Major Gros, command-ing officer, A.S. Signal Reserve Corps, said in part: Your son met a glorious death. He was one of the shining lights of ourAviation.

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