. New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . iven credit for bringing down a German planeduring his first engagement. Lieut. Stiles took part in the drive, and on Sept. 16, 1918, was reported Missing inaction. It was later ascertained that he had been killed in actionon that date, having been brought down by four or five Germanplanes. He was shot through the chest and death was instanta-neous on landing. He was buried near where he fell in a littlecemetery beside some Germans, who had been killed in , he was reburied in the officers section of the
. New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . iven credit for bringing down a German planeduring his first engagement. Lieut. Stiles took part in the drive, and on Sept. 16, 1918, was reported Missing inaction. It was later ascertained that he had been killed in actionon that date, having been brought down by four or five Germanplanes. He was shot through the chest and death was instanta-neous on landing. He was buried near where he fell in a littlecemetery beside some Germans, who had been killed in , he was reburied in the officers section of the cemetery atThiaucourt. On the day of his death Lieut. Stiles was the leader ofa patrol of three, and when seven miles southwest of Metz thesemen were attacked by a number of German planes. Two of themen were able to reach their own lines, but Lieut. Stiles was lastseen flying straight into Germany. Although only officially cred-ited with one plane, it has been reported by other aviators thatStiles brought down several planes after his first one. He was cited [ 16 ]. ROBERT HEWINS STILES by Gen. Pershing, For exceptionally meritorious and conspicuousservices with the 13th Squadron. Capt. Biddle, Commander of the 13th Squadron, wrote of him: Lieut. Stiles was one of my Flight Commanders, and I considered himone of the most valuable men in the Squadron, and the loss to all of hisfriends here who admired him so much for his courage and fine charactercannot be measured. Capt. Biddle elsewhere wrote of this engagement: In three days, Sept. 13 to 15, the 13th Squadron shot down officiallyeight German machines, all single-seater fighting planes. In the mean-time, however, we ourselves lost six men, two of them being among mybest pilots. Brother in Service —■ Walter F. Stiles, Jr., 1st Lieut., , LOUIS EVANS BOUTWELL Second Lieutenant, , , Twenty-Second AeroSquadron, Second Pursuit Group Son of Harvey L. and Nellie C. Boutwell; was born in Maiden,Mass., Feb. 15
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