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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gth proved unequal to battle withthe strong current and rough waters and he was drowned beforereaching them. By order of the War Department he was accordeda military funeral of an officer of rank; and also by order of theWar Department the Aviation Field at Fort Worth, Tex., formerlyknown as Everman Field, was renamed Barron Field, in hishonor. The highest peak on Mansfield Peninsula, off southeasternAlaska, 4000 feet high, has also been named Mount Robert Barronby our Government to commemorate the Aviator who gave hislife for his friends. Personal letters were received by the family ofCadet Barron, from President Wilson, Secretary Baker, SenatorChamberlain, and others, praising his heroic act. He was buriedat Mount Calvary Cemetery, Portland, Ore. Letter from President Wilson: The White HouseWashington 12 December, 1917 My dear Friends : May I not send you a word of very heartfelt sympathy? The death ofyour son in an heroic effort to save two of his comrades from drowning has ( 318 )
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ROBERT JAMES BARRON excited my sympathy not only, but my very profound admiration. I hopethat your grief will be tempered in some degree at least by a knowledge ofthe peculiar distinction with which your son died. Cordially and sincerely yours (Sgd) Woodrow Wilson Cadet Barrons grandfather, Robert Nixon, served in the CivilWar, and met his death also by drowning, on a transport en routefrom the South to New York. * HOWARD B. HULL Second Lieutenant, A.S., U.S.A., Gunnery OfficerEllington FieldKilled in airplane accident, Sept. 8, 1918Son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Hull, of Bridgeport, Conn.; wasborn Jan. 4, 1895. He was educated in the Boston public schools;at the Roxbury High School, 1912; and at Harvard College, A.B.1916. He attended the 1st Plattsburg Training Camp, from Mayto Aug., 1917, and was commissioned 2d Lieut. Aug. 14, 1917.From Aug. 27 to Sept. 1, 1917, he was stationed at Camp Devens,Mass. He was attached to the Royal Flying Corps for special dutyat Camp Borden, Ontario,

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