Lafayette Flying Corps

American volunteer pilots who flew in the French Armée de l'Air during World War I.

This listing includes only those who initially were volunteer ambulance drivers in the American Field Service.

Eight of them: Willis B. Haviland (SSU 2), Henry Sweet Jones (SSU 1), Walter Lovell (SSU 2), James R. McConnell (SSU 2), Douglas Macmonagle (SSU 3-8), Kenneth A. Marr (SSU 2), Lawrence Rumsey (SSU1) and Harold B. Willis (SSU 2) were members of the famed Lafayette Escadrille.

Willis, Harold Buckley

Born Died

* 1890/02/09† 1962/04/18

Who

WWI driver, WWII driver

When

WWI, WWII

Allen, Sidney Thayer

Born Died

* 1893/09/11† 1956/04/12

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Barclay, Leif Norman

Born Died

* 1895/05/21† 1917/06/01

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Batchelor, Henry Augustus

Born Died

* 1895/01/27† 1971/10/29

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Baylies, Frank Leaman

Born Died

* 1895/09/23† 1918/06/17

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Blake, Charles Raymond

Born Died

* 1897/11/08† 1958/05/09

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Bluethenthal, Arthur

Born Died

* 1891/11/01† 1918/06/05

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Brown, Stafford Leighton

Born Died

* 1895/10/25† 1917/09/28

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Buffum, Thomas Bradley

Born Died

* 1894/10/26† 1970/11

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Cassady, Thomas Gantz

Born Died

* 1896/01/05† 1972/07/09

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

De Roode, Clifford A.

Born Died

* 1886/09/09† 1973/08/25

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Dock, George, Jr.

Born Died

* 1895/01/20† 1971/10/21

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Dowd, Meredith Loveland

Born Died

* 1895/07/23† 1918/10/26

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Elliott, Chester Arthur

Born Died

* 1897/02/18† 1981/01/30

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Eoff, Robert Grimshaw

Born Died

* 1896/01/01† 1989/01/20

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Fairchild, Edwin Bradley

Born Died

* 1896/08/04† 1979/07/07

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Ferguson, Fearchar Ian

Born Died

* 1896/05/10† 1972/01/15

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Fowler, Eric Anderson

Born Died

* 1895/07/24† 1917/11/26

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Gilmore, William Smith

Born Died

* 1891/05/12† 1972/07/03

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Grey, Charles Gossage

Born Died

* 1894/06/20† 1987/03/06

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Gros, Edmund Louis

Born Died

* 1869/09/11† 1942/10/16

American physician in Paris.

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Guy, David Wade

Born Died

* 1897/09/28† 1960/05/28

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Haviland, Willis B.

Born Died

* 1890/03/10† 1944/11/28

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Heilbuth, John Raynolds

Born Died

* 1898/10/22† 14/12

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Hobbs, Warren Tucker

Born Died

* 1895/11/03† 1918/06/26

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Huffer, John Francis William

Born Died

* 1895/06/15† 1986/04/23

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Jones, Henry Sweet

Born Died

* 1892† 1972/03/29

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Judd, David Edward

Born Died

* 1894/08/31† 1975/04/17

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Kenyon, Hugo Alden

Born Died

* 1892/12/06† 1953/11/11

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Kinsolving, Charles McIlvaine

Born Died

* 1893/01/19† 1984/12/24

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Kirkwood, William Francis

Born Died

* 1897/10/30† 1976/12/02

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Kyle, George Marion

Born Died

* 1895/08/01† 1941/10/07

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Lee, Schuyler

Born Died

* 1898/07/29† 1918/04/12

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Lewis, David Wilber

Born Died

* 1892/07/09† 1982/06/06

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Lovell, Walter

Born Died

* 1884/09/09† 1937/09/10

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

MacMonagle, Douglas

Born Died

* 1892/02/19† 1917/09/24

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Marr, Kenneth

Born Died

* 1885/06/10† 1963/12/28

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

McCall, George Archibald

Born Died

* 1886/08/24† 1956/04/15

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

McConnell, James Rogers

Born Died

* 1887/03/14† 1917/03/19

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Miller, Walter Bernard

Born Died

* 1893/11/09† 1918/08/03

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Nichols, Alan Hammond

Born Died

* 1897/01/07† 1918/06/02

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Nordhoff, Charles Bernard

Born Died

* 1889/02/01† 1947/04/10

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Paden, David Sheldon

Born Died

* 1895/12/04† 1976/08/14

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Palmer, Henry Brewster

Born Died

* 1887/12/25† 1917/11/12

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Potter, Thomas Windeatt

Born Died

* 1891/05/14† 1968/01/11

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Read, Robert Emery

Born Died

* 1892/11/26† 1976/09/06

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Rotharmel, Kenneth

Born Died

* 1892/09/05† 1952/10/17

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Rumsey, Lawrence

Born Died

* 1885/09/02† 1967/05/04

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Shoninger, Clarence Bernard

Born Died

* 1893/10/09† 1956/02/01

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Taber, Leslie Ray

Born Died

* 1893/04/15† 1963/10/21

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Wainwright, Neal

Born Died

* 1898/01/18† 1935/03/19

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Wass, William Ethelbert

Born Died

* 1897/08/21

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Wilson, Gill Robb

Born Died

* 1892/09/18† 1966/09/08

A founder of the U.S. Civil Air Patrol

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Woodward, Henry H. Houston

Born Died

* 1896/02/02† 1918/04/01

Who

WWI driver

When

WWI

Thaw, William, IV

Born Died

* 1920/05/07† 1948/03/06

Who

WWII driver

When

WWII