Lt. Frank Leamon Baylies, FAS
Victories:
12
Squadrons:
Spa3, Spa73
Born:
23 September 1895 New Bedford, Massachusetts
Died: 17 June 1918 Killed In Action between
Rollet and Orvillers, France
Awards:
French Médaille Militaire, French Croix de Guerre
Notes
Baylies joined the
United States Ambulance Service in 1916. After seeing action on
the Western Front and in Serbia, he enlisted in the French Air
Service in May 1917. After earning a Pilot's Brevet, he was
assigned to Spa73 at Dunkirk in November 1917. A month later, he
joined the Storks Group as a pilot with Spa3. In early 1918,
Baylies refused a commission with the United States Air Service,
preferring to remain with the French. He was killed in action
when his patrol encountered the Fokker Triplanes of Jasta 19.
Initially buried at Rollet, his body was exhumed in 1927 and
Baylies was reburied at the Memorial de L'Escadrille Lafayette in
Paris.
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