Name:
Schuyler Lee
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant
Serial Number:
Unit:
Lafayette Escadrille
Date of Death:
1918-04-12
State:
New Jersey
Cemetery:
Lafayette Escadrille Memorial, Marnes la Coqu
Plot:
Wall of the missing
Row:
Grave:
Decoration:
French Croix de Guerre with palm, and two citations
Comments:
Born July 29, 1898, in Bloomfield, New Jersey. Son of Reverend J. Beveridge and Mynna Greenman Lee. Home, New London, Connecticut. Educated German-English Academy, Milwaukee (Wisconsin); Latin School, Chicago; Haverford School, Pennsylvania, and Phillips Academy, Andover, Class of 1918. Joined American Field Service, April 28, 1917; attached Transport Section 526 to August 6, 1917. Enlisted French Aviation, Lafayette Escadrille. Breveted October 22, 1917. Trained Avord, Tours, Pau, and le Plessis-Belleville. Caporal, Spad Escadrille 96, January 10, 1918. Shot down and killed, April 12, 1918, east of Montdidier, Somme.