Word: royale
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lieutenant Gustav H. Kissel '17, an American in the British Royal Flying Corps, was yesterday officially reported as missing in action, in a cablegram from the British headquarters in France. It is believed that he was forced to I behind the enemy lines and was captured by the Germans...
Word has also been received that Lieutenant Francis P. Magoun '16 has been wounded flying on the western front. Last fall he was commissioned second lieutenant in the British Royal Flying Corps, as a result of his unusual skill and daring while fighting in the scouts' division of the flying corps. On December 6, 1917, he brought down a German aviator who had previously overcome 16 Allied planes...
...above aviators, who have died in the service of the country, are representative of the share which the University is having in the present war. In addition to the above names is that of Briggs Kilburn Adams '17, a lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps, who died in a Red Cross Hospital in France last week from wounds received in action o n the Western Front. Approximately 90 members of the University are engaged in aviation...
Adams, who graduated from College last spring, joined the Royal Flying Corps at Toronto, Canada, a few days after Commencement. He was commissioned a second lieutenant last December, and was sent to England at once. A few weeks later he was put on active service on the Western Front. During the summer of 1916, Adams served as a Red Cross ambulance driver...
Lieutenant Pat O'Brien of the Royal Flying Corps will speak in Emerson D this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock under the auspices of the University Aeronautical Society. His talk, the subject of which has not been announced, will probably be on aviation, as well as on his remarkable experiences on the Western Front and in a German prison camp, from which he made his escape...