Lee Schuyler

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Schuyler Lee is honored on the following 2 monument(s) in our database:

American Volunteer Monument Paris

The Lafayette Escadrille Heroes Memorial

Name:

Schuyler Lee

Rank:

Flight Lieutenant

Serial Number:

Unit:

Lafayette Escadrille

Date of Death:

1918-04-12

State:

New Jersey

Cemetery:

Lafayette Escadrille Memorial, Marnes la Coqu

Plot:

Wall of the missing

Row:

Grave:

Decoration:

French Croix de Guerre with palm, and two citations

Comments:

Born July 29, 1898, in Bloomfield, New Jersey. Son of Reverend J. Beveridge and Mynna Greenman Lee. Home, New London, Connecticut. Educated German-English Academy, Milwaukee (Wisconsin); Latin School, Chicago; Haverford School, Pennsylvania, and Phillips Academy, Andover, Class of 1918. Joined American Field Service, April 28, 1917; attached Transport Section 526 to August 6, 1917. Enlisted French Aviation, Lafayette Escadrille. Breveted October 22, 1917. Trained Avord, Tours, Pau, and le Plessis-Belleville. Caporal, Spad Escadrille 96, January 10, 1918. Shot down and killed, April 12, 1918, east of Montdidier, Somme.