Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1918 — ROOSEVELT’S SON KILLED-IN BATTLE [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT’S SON KILLED-IN BATTLE

London, July 17.—Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt, -son 'of former President Roosevelt, was shot down and killed on the Chateau Thierry sector of the Marne front on Sunday, according to an exchange telegraph dispatch from Paris today. According to the dispatch Philip Roosevelt, from his station in the trenches, saw the young American aviator fall victim to a German air squadron. Quentin Roosevelt was the youngest son of the former president and shot down his first German airplane in a fight north of Chateau Thierry one week ago today. That was his third fight over_the fighting front. He received his commission as lieutenant in the aviation service on July 14, 1917, after being graduated from the Mineolp training school.