VICTOR EMMANUEL CHAPMAN, a member of the Franco-American Aviation Corps, was killed at Verdun on June 23, 1916, and fell within the German lines. He was on his twenty-seventh year; was born in New York, spent two years at the Fay School, went for several years to St. Paul's School, Concord, lived abroad for a year in France and Germany. On his return, he spent a year at the Stone School in Boston and then went to Harvard, where he graduated in 1913; immediately after graduation he went to Paris and studied architecture for one year at the atelier of M. Gromort, in preparation for admission to the Beaux-Arts. This made him a Beaux-Arts student, – for the ateliers are a part of the school, – and thus it came about that in 1914 he joined the Foreign Legion.

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