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ISOB Richard Varian Banks - U.S. Air Service, WW1

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Details:

In the cemtery near the CWGC section and the French military section, perhaps section 23.

Isolated Burial

A horizontal private inscribed grave slab with crossed American and French flags.

The Isolated Burial (ISOB) of 2nd Lieutenant Richard Varian Banks who was killed in an automobile accident inear Nancy, France and died on October 30, 1918.

2LT Banks initally arrived with the American Field Service in June 1917 and served with the  Transport Section 526 until November 18, 1917. He then enlisted U. S. Air Service on December 2, 1917. He trained in Tours and Issoudun (3rd Aviation Center) and was commissioned Second Lieutenant, May 18, 1918.

 

Source:  Memorial Volume of the American Field Service, 1921

Monument Text:

LIEUTENANT 

RICHARD BANKS

AIR SERVICE U.S.A

30 OCTOBER 1918

Commemorates:

People:

Richard Varian 'Dick' Banks

Units:

3rd Aviation Instruction Center

American Field Service

US Army Air Service

Wars:

WWI

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