First Lieutenant <b>Francis Peabody Magoun, Jr.,</b> R.A.F., No. 1 Squadron. Son of Francis Peabody and Jeanne (Bartholow) Magoun, of Cambridge, Mass.; was born in New York City, Jan. 6, 1895. He attended the Noble and Greenough School, Boston, and graduated from Harvard College in 1916. In Feb., 1916, he joined the American Ambulance Field Service, and sailed overseas; he served as volunteer driver with S.S.U. No. 1, from March 3 to Aug. 3, 1916, during which time this section was cited in French divisional Orders, July 15, 1916. He returned to the U.S., and in Feb., 1917, again went overseas, enlisting in London, in March, with the Royal Flying Corps. He attended the School of Military Aeronautics at Oxford, Eng., and trained in elementary flying at the R.N.A.S. School, Vendome, France. He trained at Catterick, Yorks, in advanced flying, and at the School of Aerial Gunnery at Turnberry, Scotland. On July 4, 1917, he was commissioned 2d Lieut. R.A.F.; and on Aug. 1, 1918, 1st Lieut., R.A.F. ; “wings” gazetted Sept. 3, 1917. Lieut. Magoun was attached to No. 1 Squadron, R.A.F., B.E.F., and served in France from Nov. 15, 1917, to April 10, 1918, when he was wounded while ground-strafing. On April 9 he was awarded the British Military Cross. In the summer of 1918 he returned to the U.S. on a furlough, but on Oct. 9 rejoined his Squadron and was again at the front, remaining in active service until the first of Jan., 1919. He was demobilized at Folkestone, Eng., Jan. 10, 1919, and enrolled for graduate work at Trinity College, Cambridge, Eng. In the summer of 1919 Lieut. Magoun returned to the U.S.
New England Aviators, 1914-1918; Their Portraits and Their Records, by Caroline Ticknor, ed. Boston, 1919.
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