Victor Chapman's Letters from France. With a Memoir by John Jay Chapman.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917,
First Edition. octavo, blue cloth and boards with title labels on front cover and spine. (x), 196, (viii)pp. The Macmillan Company, Item #32408
With memoir by John Jay Chapman. Illustrated with photographs. Chapman graduated from Harvard, class of 1913. He was in Paris, studying architecture at the Ecole des Beaux arts, when the war broke out and immediately enlisted in the French Foreign Legion and served from August, 1914 to August, 1915, during which time he and his unit were under continual fire and he was wounded by a rifle bullet. He enlisted in French aviation on August 1, 1915 and was posted to Escadrille V.B. 108 as a mitrailleur-bombardier. After making application for aviation school, he entered the School of Military Aviation on 26 September, 1917. He received his brevet on 9 January, 1916. On 20 April he was assigned to the newly organized Escadrille Lafayette. He was wounded in combat on 17 June, 1917 and was killed in action northeast of Douaumont on 23 June, 1916. He received the Medaille Militaire and the Croix de Guerre, with two Palms. A near fine, very clean copy.
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