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Submitted: 10/21/14 • Approved: 5/19/15 • Last Updated: 8/14/15 • R81852-G0-S3
LIEUTENANT US Naval Reserve Flying Corps
World War I
August 10, 1889 - October 11, 1918
killed while flying over the North Sea patrolling for submarines near Killingholme England in the World War
son of General Lawrence Davis and Bettie McGhee Tyson
"Better death by the sword for some high unselfish purpose than to live out a life of ease safe and cloistered all thy days. To live for thine own ends is human, to die for some great cause for liberty or for another's good - that is Godlike."
Contributed on 10/21/14 by mjkane7
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