Dudley Gilman Tucker
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Dudley Gilman Tucker | |
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| Born | Dudley Gilman Tucker April 7, 1887 New York City |
| Died | July 8, 1918 (age 31) Louatre, France |
Dudley Gilman Tucker was born in New York City, April 7, 1887 to Gilman Henry Tucker and Caroline Low (Kimball) Tucker. He was a member of the Harvard Class of 1907, then attended Columbia Law School for a time, dropping out in 1909 to work for the American Book Company. He was a descendant of Massachusetts colonial era governor Thomas Dudley.[1][2]
In 1917, while on his way to China and Japan with a friend, Austen "Billy" Parker, to study traditional Asian theater, he became stranded in Panama, unable to find passage on any of the ships transiting the Panama Canal because of shipping diversions due to demands of the First World War, he and Parker decided to head for France to join the war effort. [3][4]
On March 28, 1917, Tucker joined the French Foreign Legion, but only a few weeks later in April he transferred to the Lafayette Escadrille. From May 22m, 1917 to January 26, 1918, he was in training at the aviation schools of Avord, Pau, and Le Plessis-Belleville, being breveted pilote (Caudron) and promoted to corporal on September 30, 1917, and attaining a record as a skillful and courageous pilot. On January 28, 1918 he was sent to the front, assigned first to Escadrille Spad 74, transferring later to Spad 15 in the famous Groupe de Combat 13. In June he was promoted to sergeant. Tucker died while fighting six German fighters in the skies over the small town of Louatre on the 8th of July 1918. His plane crashed near the village. [5][6]
References
- ^ http://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/people_details.php?PeopleID=1963. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
- ^ [Memoirs of the Harvard dead in the war against Germany, Volume III, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1922.
- ^ [Memoirs of the Harvard dead in the war against Germany, Volume III, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, Cambridge MA, Havard University Press, 1922.
- ^ http://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/people_details.php?PeopleID=1963. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
- ^ [Memoirs of the Harvard dead in the war against Germany, Volume III, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, Cambridge MA, Havard University Press, 1922.
- ^ http://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/people_details.php?PeopleID=1963. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
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