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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Kensington's Yesterday," Miss Barbey has written a story, charming because of its air of starched lawns and embroidered silks, mahogany treads, and flower borders. The style echoes the tone quite beautifully--in all but the last sentence. The last sentence should be brocaded; instead it is backed with buckram...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENDS HARVARD MAGAZINE | 3/6/1919 | See Source »

Colonel Raynal Cawthorne Bolling '00, of New York, former Chief of the Air Service, who has previously been reported missing was killed in France last March; it was learned yesterday. While passing in an automobile along the Amiens-St. Quentin road near Estrees he was surprised by a party of Germans, and shot down after a short one-sided fight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CASUALTIES | 3/5/1919 | See Source »

...First Reserve Aero Squadron and was appointed a major. Previous to the departure of the squadron overseas he was sent on a special mission to Italy, France and England. Upon the completion of this work he was promoted to the rank of Colonel and made Chief of the Air Service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CASUALTIES | 3/5/1919 | See Source »

Lieutenant John Cowperwaite Tyler, S.B., '17, who has been reported as ***** missing since Sept. 25, 1918, when he took part in an air raid over Germany, died overseas; his grave has recently been identified. Tyler enlisted in the Air Service June, 1917, training first in the Ground School at M. I. T., where he graduated near the top of his class, and later at other schools in France. He was attached for some time to a French escadrille for bombing duty, and then assigned to the command of a United States Squadron. Tyler received his brevet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CASUALTIES | 2/28/1919 | See Source »

Lieutenant Gustav Hermann Kissel '16, a flight pilot attached to the Royal Air Force, who has been missing since April 12, 1918, is now reported as killed in action. He enlisted in May as a private in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps, completed the course at M. I. T., and went to France the following July for further training. After two months, he was ordered to England, where he received a commission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CASUALTIES | 2/21/1919 | See Source »

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