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Frank
Baylies
Name: Frank Leamon
Baylies
Country: United States
Rank: Lieutenant
Services: French Air Service
Units: Spa3, Spa73
Victories: 12
Date Of Birth: September 23, 1895
Place of Birth: New Bedford, Massachusetts
Date Of Death: June 17, 1918
Place of Death: Between Rollet and Orvillers
Buried: Memorial de L'Escadrille Lafayette Paris, France
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 of 1917. After earning a
Pilot's Brevet, he was assigned to Spa73 at Dunkirk in November of
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 in Paris
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