"WHAT ABOUT LAURIE?"
From the _New York Sun_, January 7, 1919:--
"Among the patients on the hospital ship _Comfort_, which arrived
yesterday with nine hundred wounded soldiers on board, was Captain
Laurence Devon, of the American Flying Forces in France.
"Captain Devon was seriously injured in a combat with two German planes,
which occurred only forty-eight hours before the signing of the
armistice. He brought down both machines and though his own plane was on
fire and he was badly wounded, he succeeded in reaching the American
lines. He has since been in the base hospital at C----, but is now
convalescent.
"Captain Devon is an American 'ace,' with eleven air victories
officially to his credit. He was awarded the French _Croix de Guerre_
and the American Distinguished Service Medal for extraordinary heroism
on August 9, 1918, when he went to the assistance of a French aviator
who was fighting four Fokker planes. In the combat the four German
machines were downed and their pilots killed. The Frenchman was badly
hurt but eventually recovered.
"Captain Devon is well known in American social and professional life.
He is the only son of the late Horace Devon, of Devondale, Ohio, and the
brother-in-law of Robert J. Warren, of New York. Before the war he was a
successful playwright. Just before sailing for France last year, he
married Miss Doris Mayo, daughter of the late General Frederick Mayo, of
Richmond, Virginia. On reaching his New York home to-day he will see for
the first time his infant son, Rodney Jacob Devon."
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Transcriber's note:
Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.