Captian 'Ace' Hamilton Coolidge - Monument aux Morts
Details:
Listed on the town war memorial which is located in the center of Chevières.
The name of Captain Hamilton 'Ham' Coolidge is inscribed on the monument aux morts. Captain Coolidge was an American Pilot and Ace in World War 1 with 9 victories. A memorial tree was also planted next to the war memorial in 2018; the 100th anniversary of Coolidge's death. Members of his family were present.
About Captain Coolidge: A graduate of Groton (class of 1915) and Harvard University (class of 1919) and the son of Professor J. Randall Coolidge of Boston, Massachusetts, Hamilton Coolidge was one of ten Harvard undergraduates accepted from a field of forty applicants for training at the Curtiss Flying School at Buffalo, New York in July 1916. A private with the United States Signal Corps, Aviation Section, stationed in Miami, Florida when the United States entered the war, Coolidge was sent the School of Military Aeronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on 5 June 1917. He embarked for France on 23 July 1917 and was commissioned 1st Lieutenant on 29 September 1917. After additional instruction at Issoudun he was assigned to the 94th Aero Squadron on 16 June 1918. He was promoted to Captain on 3 October 1918. On 27 October 1918 he was killed in action, his SPAD XIII taking a direct hit from an anti-aircraft shell near Chevieres, France. He is remembered on the town of Chevières, France war memorial.
Monument Text:
Listed with the others honored:
Capitaine Aviateur
Hamilton Coolidge
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
94th Aero Squadron 1st Pursuit Group
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)
US Army Air Service
Wars:
WWI
Battles:
Meuse-Argonne Offensive
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