NORMAN PRINCE An American Volunteer who died for France [Illustration: _Norman Prince_] NORMAN PRINCE A VOLUNTEER WHO DIED FOR THE CAUSE HE LOVED WITH MEMOIR BY GEORGE F. BABBITT [Illustration] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1917 COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published December 1917_ To the LAFAYETTE FLYING SQUADRON (_formerly the Escadrille Américaine_) —those gallant young Americans who led the way their country was later to follow _“Under the little crosses where they rise_ _The soldier rests; now round him undismayed_ _The cannon thunder, and at night he lies_ _At peace beneath the eternal fusillade_ _That other generations might possess_ _From shame and menace free in years to come,_ _A richer heritage of happiness;_ _He marched to that heroic martyrdom.”_ CONTENTS I. MEMOIR 1 II. HIS OWN STORY 15 III. LETTERS 25 IV. FROM HIS FATHER 49 V. A COMRADE’S TRIBUTE 60 VI. HIS BROTHER’S SERVICE 65 VII. FROM THE FRENCH ENVOYS 68 VIII. MESSAGES OF CONDOLENCE AND APPRECIATION 71 ILLUSTRATIONS NORMAN PRINCE _Frontispiece_ AS MASTER (_PRO TEM._) OF THE PAU DRAGHOUNDS 6 WITH HIS FAVORITE PLANE 10 PORTRAIT AS EXHIBITED AT ALLIED FAIRS 18 WITH HIS SUPERIOR OFFICER LIEUTENANT DE LAAGE DE MŒUX 26 APPLICATION TO RIDE A BREGUET DE CHASSE 30 MEMORANDUM OF THE BRINGING-DOWN OF HIS FIRST GERMAN MACHINE 38 COVER OF A FRENCH PERIODICAL 46 NORMAN PRINCE, FREDERICK HENRY PRINCE, JR., AND FREDERICK HENRY PRINCE 50 CONCOURS HIPPIQUE 54 CAMP NORMAN PRINCE 62 FREDERICK HENRY PRINCE, JR., WITH HIS NIEUPORT 66