I read this headline and wondered about Greayer Clover .... I found this .... Born April 14, 1897, in Chicago, Illinois. Son of Samuel T. and Mabel Hitt Clover. Home, Richmond, Virginia, and Los Angeles, California. Educated Los Angeles and Pasadena schools, California; one year Leland Stanford University; Yale University, Class of 1919. Joined American Field Service, May 19, 1917; attached Transport Section 133 to November 19, 1917. Enlisted U. S. Aviation. Second Lieutenant. Killed in aeroplane accident August 30, 1918, training at Issoudun. Buried Issoudun, Indre. Memorial Volume of the American Field Service in France. 1921. 5/8 http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/memoir/AFShist/Mem5.htm#GClover Greayer Clover attended Yale with the class of 1920. According to the Yale Memorial volume, Clover attempted to join the ambulance corps but was unsuccessful. In November 1917, he enlisted in the Air Service and was commissioned 2/Lt. 18 May 1918. On August 30 he was killed in a flying accident. He was flying cross country to Romorantin, where a flying field is located, and as he came in over he circled it once to get his bearings. On one of his turns, it appears, he did not "bank" quite enough, which cause his plane, - a Nieuport - to skid. Down when the nose of his machine, as it is wont when skidding, and he crashed head first into the ground. He never regained consciousness. Lt. Crowe "his comrade who, a few weeks later, met a similiar death" described the funeral at Issodun. A flag draped camion bearing the casket, preceded by the band playing Chopin's "Marche Funebre" and then the bugler's "Taps". We saw placed on the grave fresh flowers, the blue , white and red of the clochettes, marguerites and coquelicots, the flowers of France thet he loved so well, that he gave his life for gladly, I believe, as he had so often risked it to carry aid to those fighting in France. He is remembered here ..... http://www.earlyaviators.com/ebillar1.htm http://www.ourstory.info/library/2-ww1/Clover/SuzanneTC.html#TC
