Hometown
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Honored By
A Grateful American
AMERICAN CITIZEN WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AIR TRAINING PLAN, HELD THE RANK OF FLYING OFFICER AND SERVED AS A BOMB AIMER IN THE ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE. KILLED IN ACTION WITH HIS ENTIRE CREW AT THE AGE OF 20 WHILE ATTACHED TO NO. 625 SQUADRON, ROYAL AIR FORCE (BOMBER COMMAND) WHEN HIS HOMEBOUND AVRO LANCASTER MK III (LM515) WAS SHOT DOWN NEAR TROUAN-LE-PETIT, FRANCE ON MAY 4, 1944. BURIED IN A COLLECTIVE GRAVE AT TROUAN-LE-PETIT CHURCHYARD BURIAL GROUNDS, TROUAN-LE-PETIT, AUBE, FRANCE.