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Meeker was killed in an aviation accident at Pau, France, on September 11, 1917, while preparing for active service as a member of the Lafayette Escadrille. While an undergraduate he was President of the CRIMSON and an editor of the Advocate...
...memorial to his son, William Henry Meeker '17, who was killed at Pau in an aviation accident on September 11, 1917, Mr. Henry E. Meeker '89 has given to the CRIMSON a library of a thousand volumes. One of the last wishes of Meeker, who was President of the CRIMSON while in College, was that if any thing happened to him while in France, his own library be given to the CRIMSON, and it is in accordance with this wish that the gift has been made...
William H. Meeker '17, in whose memory the scholarship is founded, was a member of the Class of 1917 and left College early in the spring of that year to enter the aviation service. He became a corporal in the Lafayette Escadrille and was killed at Pau, France, on September 11, 1917, in an airplane accident...
...circumstances were as follows: Bill arrived in Pau from Avord on Sunday evening, September 11, and on the following morning he reported at the school. He immediately began his training on an 18 metre Nieuport, single control. This was the last type of machine he had flown at Avord and it is the first type taken up at this school. After a few short flights to demonstrate his ability and to learn the machine, he was sent up for practice in spiraling. For this you ascend to 1,000 metres and from that altitude you spiral down to 600 metres...
...mayor of Pau, M. Alfred de Sassance, most kindly took the funeral arrangements into his own hands and thus enabled us to have everything done. . . . Services were held in the English church in Pau. All officers and pilots of the school attended; also the mayor, many civil authorities, and several American residents. Five young Americans and myself acted as pall-bearers. . . . Two pilots flew above the cortege. This is the honorary salutation given to French pilots...