Identifier: NewEnglandaviatVol2Tick (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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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LLOYD ANDREWS HAMILTON First Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.SA., Seventeenth Aero Squadron. Killed in action, Aug. 24, 1918. Son of Dr. John A. and Jennie B. (Andrews) Hamilton, of Burlington, Vt.; was born at Troy, N.Y., June 13, 1894. He graduated from the Pittsfield High School with honors in 1911; there he was president of his class and captain of the school track team. In 1912 he graduated from the Jacob Tome Institute in Maryland. He was valedictorian of the class, was awarded the school's scholarship prize, elected to Alpha Delta Tau for meritorious attainments, associate editor of The Trail publication, member of the debating team, and of the track team and football squad. He graduated from Syracuse University, A.B., 1916. He was a member of the freshman football and track teams, the Varsity football and track squads, and member of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. He was awarded Phi Beta Kappa honor, and Liberal Artshonor, in the Department of Economics, and graduated Magnacum Laude. sted, April 23, 1917, and on May 12 was sent to the R.O.T.C. at Plattsburg. On July 12 he signed for Aviation and was transferred to the M.I.T. for ground-school work. Further ground-school work was taken at Oxford University, and Grantham Gun School, England. His first flying was at Tadcaster, and was continued at South Carlton aerodrome, and at Turnberry and Ayr, Scotland. He was commissioned 1st Lieut. March 2, 1918, and at once sent to the front in France, attached to the famous British Third Aero Squadron. He had the distinction of being the first American officer to fight with the Royal Flying Corps, and was the first of the 150 of his former Mineola's training Squad to bring down an enemy machine. While with the R.F.C. he was under the well-known Capt. Bell, of Australia, who was credited with twenty-three machines, and who, because of his dash and skill, was called Ginger Bell. Lieut. Hamilton was with Capt. Bell in the air when the latter was shot down by
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a German explosive shell, and at once avenged his Captains death by shooting down the enemy observer and pilot in their machine. The day before the well-known Von Richthofen was killed Lieut. Hamilton was in the flight that fought the famous flying circus and engaged Von Richthofen himself for a few minutes, but later engaged another and sent him down. On June 20 he was transferred to the U.S. Air Service and made Flight Commander in the 17th Aero Squadron. This he helped to form and train. He was one of three recommended for commanding officer of the Squadron, but an older man of more military experience was chosen. His operations throughout his work at the front were from Amiens north to the coast. On Aug. 24 he was returning from an attack ten miles over the lines when he saw an enemy kite balloon and dove on it, causing the observer to jump, and then shot the balloon down in flames. But before getting away he was hit by enemy machine guns from the ground and fell about

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