LUFBERY, RAOUL SERVAIS

(18919918), World War aviator and member of ths American Escadrille of the French ee Legion; 6. Walling ford, Conn.; a pout, Erane. ad was of French escent, and as a boy of seventeen left his home for foreign parts in search of adventure. He visited France, worked Hurope, Africa “and South, Amoricn Enlictine in tho US. A erica. g in the U.S. Army, he was sent| to the Philippines, and on being mustered out traveled in China, Japan and India, eoete Be woes in etraaeed as a ticket-| 2! french aviator there. When the World e merican Escadrille. His mate oapicita in downing German airships won for him the} French Croix de Guerre and Medaille|and Militarie, the British Military Cro | and the cro of the Legion of Honor. In May, 1918, he was ed over the| American sector at Toul in an atte to bring down one of Germany’s impr ed machines, an armored flying © two-engined, two-gunned, its pilot gunners in armor. His aeropla: caught fire and he plunged to his dea from its flames.