Chicago aviator, completed his junior year in college and volunteered in May, 1917, for service in the Tech Unit of the American Ambulance Field Service, sailing for France on June 25, with the avowed purpose of getting into the Aviation Service as quickly as possible. Arriving in Paris July 4, he secured his release the following day from the Ambulance Service, volunteered, and was accepted as a member of the Lafayette Flying Corps. e was among the first men to answer the call to arms as America slowly prepared to enter the European conflict. He entered the French Air Corps in 1917. He was killed in action on April 21, 1918.