University of Illinois - Illio Yearbook (Urbana Champaign, IL)

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A ,Q 4 ' '-ze, -3 fffx Credited with having shot down six German planes, Lieutenant Frank Hays ex-'19 is the first of the Illini aces. He wears the Distinguished Service medal for bravery in action. Lieutenant Hays left college and the baseball diamond to enter the Aviation Corps. He saw active service on the Lorraine front from August, 1918, until the armistice was signed, bringing down six planes officially and several for which he has not been credited. One of his spectacular feats occurred on September 13. One of the group of five, he was attacked by seven Hun planes. His machine gun jammed, but successfully clearing this, he lodged his attackers and drove off several Huns who were embarrassing the flight commander. For this display of bravery he received his decoration. Wearing the French decoration which shows three divisional citations, Capt. Lyle H. Gift '18, was one of the first Illini war veterans to return and visit theicampus. Capt. Gift fell irrthedsecond battle of the Marne at Soissons on July 19, 1918, and, when he reached an evacuation hospital, was found to be suffering from wounds which necessitated the amputation of his right leg above the knee. He was sent to the United States to convalesce before the armistice was signed, and is now in the officer's headquarters at Camp Walter Reed hospital in Wash- ington, D. C. In memory of his great work in France, a city was named after William Uackl Hamilton '17, by the people in the vicinity where his ambulance carried the wounded poilus. Enlisting in the ambulance service in July of 1917, he was soon after sent to France. Here he saw active service until May 4, 1918 when, near the village of Diaan, he was struck by a German shell and killed. Letters from the commander of the ambulance unit deplored his comrades of the dead hero The American Army on the Archangel front is engaged in fighting the Bolshevik army. Frazier Hunt '08, is an American Being such, his daring presence in Russia is that of an enemy within the lines. For moral and physical courage in risking his life to present news to the world this latest achievement of Frazier Hunt is unsurpassed in the journalism of the war. This tribute, by Floyd Gibbons, typifies the work of Frazier Hunt in the war. Spike was the editor of the 1908 Illio and is now special correspondent of the Chicago Tribune. He has seen service on both the western and the eastern front, and should have some W 1 . V 77. untimely death, and described the sincere sorrow shown by all the 173 great tales to tell at Homecoming next year. Nineteen THE TWE3TY ILLIO

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MNH 21 X fl B Q ,fl 4 .C A if 'Ex Slooie Chapman '16, learned to face an enemy-and beat him-on the University football field while he was a member of the team during the seasons of 1913-14-15 and captain in 1915. He carried on his fight on the great western front in the big, victorious drive against the Germans in the early summer of 1918. On July 18, 1918, Slooie was riddled by machine gun fire sent from a low flying Hun plane, and received wounds which will sadly handicap his former vigorous and active life. Five machine gun bullets tore through the lower part of the athlete's body and as a result, Slooie is limping today. His right leg, now stiff in the hip socket, is shorter than his left one. B'ut this injury, which laid him on his back for six months, has not phased that indomitable smile which is still there in spite of all that Slooie has been through. Lieutenant William E. Brotherton, ex-'17, had attained a reputation as a fearless pilot before he succumbed to a superior number of German planes on October 10, 1918 on the western front. Three planes and one balloon were officially credited to him before his last fight. He had penetrated far behind the German lines in pursuit of several Hun machines and in Hying close to the ground was put out of commission by a superior number of Fokkers. Never again will Lt. Laddie McKeown '16, conference champion, step the hurdles. As a result of a disastro'us'fall in France in the summer of 1918, he had 14 bones broken, a small brain concussion and subsequently lost his right foot. He has been confined to hospitals in France and the United States for the past ten months. Laddie got into the flying game early, attending the Ground School at Champaign. From here he went directly to France where he was commissioned. His fall, 3,000 feet, resulting from a nose dive, cost the life of his companion, but Laddie had his old luck with him. Lt Harry K. Strauch, former instructor in the medical department at Chicago has been reported killed in action on the western front. He had several Hun machines to his credit before communication with him ceased. He enlisted early inthe war in the aviation section and distinguished himself by his valorous action, Eighteen THE 'TVIESTYUILLIO

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