Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-24 | Page 1 | Lehi Youth Bags Boche Airplane

f LIGHT LIEUTENANT IKA WOODHOUSE of the Royal air force, Lelii, Utah, boy, who has just brought down his first Boche machine. ma-chine. He wears the French war cross and has served under the American, French and English flags. I I if v:.;- I 1 14 (ifMi TlClflPLlE Flight Lieutenant Adds to Honors in Fighting in France. Flight Lieutenant Ira Wood house of j Lelii, Utah, officer in the royal air force ! of England, has just brought down his fir Ht boche opponent, according to a let-l let-l ter received by relatives yesterday. Lieutenant Woodhouse, who is twenty-two twenty-two years of. age, is the grandson of Mrs. ! John Woodhouse of Lehi. Jle was one of the most pon-ulnr stud en Is during liis 1 year.-j in inch .school at Lehi and was : an athldo of note. Volunteering- in the A m erica n Rp.d Cros a.s an a mbula nco driver, lie went abroad and was assigned to d rive an . ambulance in the French service and in .Tune, I'.fll, at Verdun was awarded the ! Freru-h war cross for bravery under ire. He was also promoted lo the French a via tion service by the French minister of war. , When the United States took over the aero ex perts of its own and organized the elaborate system of aerial coast defense de-fense service in France Lieutenant Y'ood-hourfe Y'ood-hourfe joined the American squadron. V bile e n S a jre d in this w o r k lie way so .severely wounded in the chest that lie was relieved of further duty in the war by the war department. AliiIc reeoveri n? bis health a nd Pt' cns. h in a base hospital in England the yuuns; Utahn rcsoived not to leave , the battling while things appeared a bit gloomy. C'onseqTieniiy he ap)lied for enlistment en-listment in the IloyaJ llritish air force (and his services were accepted. He was j scjit to a school for officers and recently , scoured his flight commission. Tte Ger-' Ger-' man piano which he reports having felled is his first in his new line of service.