Jack Morris Wright

[Didier Lecoq]

Hello,
I research information on Jack Morris Wright, "The Poet of The Air". I need to know when He was in Aviation Instruction Center in Tours. And where he died.
Thank you
DL

[cameldriver]

According to the Memorial Volume of the American Field Service in France, which Morris served with before going into the Air Service, he trained at Issoudun and was killed there in an airplane accident on January 14, 1918. He was buried at the military cemetery there.

[bombaimer]

He was at Tours Sept 28, 1917 per war diary of Walter L. Avery 95th Aero as published in Over The Front and crashed and died during Spirals Class on January 24, 1918. Another edition of the above publication carried a bief bio as follows: 1/Lt Jack Morris Wright died at age 19. Born in New York City he spent more than half his life in France schools. In the spring of 1917, at age 18, he left Harvard and went to Europe to serve in the Ambulance Corps, but was diverted to the French Munitions Transport, trucking shells to the front. In July he joined the USAS. After completing primary training at Tours, he went to Issoudun in November (conflicts with Averys Diary) On 24 January 1918 while paracticing spirals in a 15 meter machine, he crashed and died a few hours later.