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Show (Copy for Thlg Department Supplied by the American Legion News Service.) IS LEGION LEADER IN PARIS Famoua New Orleans Ace Heads American Volunteers of French ! Foreign Organization. Edgar John Boullgny of New Orleans, famous Ace of the Lafayette Esquadrllle and scion of an old French family has been chosen to head art association associ-ation of veterans organized at Paris and called "American Volunteers Volun-teers of the French Foreign Legion." When Germany announced an-nounced Its lnten- tlon of meeting "all comers," Boullgny was one of the first Americans to volunteer his cervices for France and was decorated four times for bravery with the esqua-drllle. esqua-drllle. He Is a member of Alvin Cal-lender Cal-lender post, American Legion. Boullgny first served with the Second regiment of the French Foreign Legion. When transferred to the Lafayette flyers, his Intrepid maneuvering ma-neuvering over the enmy lines, eagerness eager-ness to engage any plane bearing the maltese cross, contributed many of the thrilling chapters which comprise the history of that heroic group. He was transferred to the American air forces when this country entered the fight and became an ace. He also Secured numerous remarkable photographs, photo-graphs, among them being one of enemy shells bursting over the Rheims cathedral during the first bombardment bombard-ment of this historic structure. I The organization of which Boullgny Is president, Includes American volunteers volun-teers who enlisted In the early days bf the war, while their country was till neutral, and Is intended to Include "the bonaflde American citizens who Berved honorably at the front with the Legion, for the purpose of keeping fresh the memory of fallen comrades and furthering friendship among those urvlvlng." |