ALFRED D. PELTON ALTHOUGH he was a Canadian both in birth and residence, Alfred Pelton was so eager for service in France that the executive committee of the Lafayette Corps decided to make an exception in his case and to admit him to membership. Pelton was as much at home with the Americans in the French Air Service as were the scores of Americans who enlisted in the Canadian Air Force. He was sent to the French Squadron N. 151, where he was the only Lafayette Corps representative. Throughout the autumn and early winter of 1917, he acted as host to every American pilot who landed at his aerodrome at Chaux, near Belfort, on the Vosges Sector, and many of them who landed there for fuel or food will long remember his friendly, cordial greeting and his warm-hearted hospitality.
He was granted a three months' furlough in the winter, and upon his return to the Front in March, 1918, was sent to N. 97, where he did faithful and excellent work during the great German offensive of that spring. He was in the thick of heavy fighting, the most severe of all of it coming at the end of May, when the enemy crossed the Chemin des Dames and pushed on to Chateau-Thierry. For a time Allied pilots were greatly outnumbered, and many of them were shot down during battles in which the odds were all against them. Alfred Pelton was killed on the 31st of May, when his squadron was bravely carrying the fight into enemy territory. He fell within the German lines in the region of Soissons, and was at first thought to have been made prisoner. It was not until four months later that news of his death was received through the International Red Cross.
Source - Google books "The Lafayette Flying Corps, Volume 1" by James Norman Hall, Charles Nordhoff, Edgar G. Hamilton, Houghton Mifflin publisher, 1920.