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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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paying tribute to his memory the Rev. Mr. Gregg said: This young soldier, whom we are commemorating, did not pretend togreatness. His last thought would have been to esteem himself above hisfellows. Yet it is remarkable that wherever he went, other people andespecially his contemporaries and comrades, admired him, respected him,and loved him. One of these, a cadet, who was with him both at the avia-tion school in Cambridge and in France, wrote: I have never known any-body who was a better example of the highest type of an American. Of allthe men in our detachment there was no one who was a better citizen, actu-ally and potentially, none whom the nation could so ill afford to spare. Byhis straightforward living under conditions not the most favorable he was aconstant inspiration to all of us. Cadet Jones was descended from two Captains of Revolutionaryfame, on his mothers side from Capt. Thomas Abbe, of Enfield,Conn., and on his fathers, from Capt. Samuel Pelton, of Pittsfield. ( 296 )
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*WILLIAM HALSALL CHENEY First Lieutenant, A.S., S.O.R.C.Killed in airplane accident, at Foggia, Italy, Jan. 20, 1918Son of Charles P. Cheney and Mary C. Cheney (Schofield), ofPeterboro, N.H.; was born at Colorado Springs, Colo., Jan. 15,1897. He was educated at St. Marks School, and at Harvard Col-lege, class of 1920. He was captain of St. Marks School footballteam in 1915-16; and member of the Harvard freshman footballteam in 1916. During his vacations in 1915 and 1916 he took pre-liminary training in Aviation at Newport News, Va. He left college in his freshman year to enlist in U.S. AviationService. March 31, 1917, he entered the School of Military Aero-nautics at Urbana, 111., and graduated as Honor Student on July25, 1917. He sailed overseas and took advanced training in flyingin Italy, and was the first American to win the Italian MilitaryFlying Brevet, on Oct. 18, 1917. He was commissioned 1st Lieut.A.S., S.O.R.C. on Nov. 23, 1917. On Jan. 20, 1918, Lieut. Cheney was accidental

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