Paul Warren Lindsley was born on June 9, 1897, in Pueblo, Colorado. He was the son of Charles L. Lindsley and Jennie W. Willard Lindsley.

A member of the Marietta College Unit with which he served six months in France, Paul left the United States in May 1917. His term of enlistment expiring, Lindsley joined the American Red Cross, then in need of help to carry on its work behind the Italian army, at that particular time the principal field of its operations. When the German-Austrian onslaught there was stopped, Lindsley secured his release and went south to Foggia, where many American aviators were training.

Enlisting there on May 5, 1918, he was soon working for a chasse pilot's commission. Here, after flying but thirteen times with an instructor, he was given his plane to fly alone, thereby lowering the camp record of fifteen flights with an instructor before solo work.

He was sent to Tours in France and shortly afterward to Issoudun to finish his training. There, just as he was completing his preparation, he met his unfortunate death. Paul was killed in an airplane accident in Issoudun, France, on October 5, 1918. He is now buried in the St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, France.

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