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See: aerobaticteams.net/three-musketeers.html The "Three Musketeers" aerobatic team were the first US display team formed in late 1927. The team represented the 1st Pursuit Group from the Army Air Corps based in Montgomery, Alabama. The original members were Lt. John J. Williams leader, Lt. William L. Cornelius and Lt. Johnson. They flew Boeing PW-9 fighters. The first major event that the "Three Musketeers" participated in was the National Air Races in Sept 8-16, 1928 at Mines Field (now Los Angeles Int.). Unfortunately during that demonstration, Lt. John J. Williams crashed and then died a day or two after his crash on 10 September. He was from Moab, Utah. Charles Lindbergh replaced him as a leader for the remainder of the Air Race airshows.

Forgotten after his parents died. It is so sad.

May he rest in peace along with all who fell in that barbaric war to end all.

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The CWGC shows him as 25249 Private John Henry Williams, 6th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, commemorated on Pier 2 Face C of the Theipval Memorial - listed amongst the missing whose bodies were never recovered from the battlefield.

During the summer of 1916, 6th(Service) Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment received training for some weeks in offensive operations in between front line duties in the Loos area. The Battalion was moved south with 112th Brigade, 37th Division, to take part in the Battle of Ancre in November 1916, the final act in the 5 months Battle of the Somme. There the Bedfords fought in and around Beaumont-Hamel. During an attack three days into the battle that was held up by unbroken belts of German wire, Private John Henry Williams lost his life in fighting on Thursday 16th November 1916, a freezing cold day, assaulting up a muddy valley east of Beaumont-Hamel as the 6th Bedfords tried in vain to reach and assault German positions on the ridge called Munich Trench.//

This is another photo of aviator Beryl J. Williams. www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/10874046503/