Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-11-27 | Page 6 | Saw Air Service in Great War and Was Captured When His Plane Fell among Enemy

SAW AIR SERVICE IN GREAT WAR AND WAS CAPTURED WHEN HIS PLANE FELL AMONG ENEMY Lieutenant Frank Seymour, brother of Raj Seymour, former world's champion cham-pion motorcycle rider, passed through Ogden today en route to hi home at .os Angeles Seymour WSa a member of the Royal Plying corps with the English until America entered the war and one ef I n o California men to become be-come mi "ace W ith the Americans, '-'.moiir transferred to ihe Yankee Ihing ( orps .md spent more than fifteen fif-teen months In active service. Seymour told of being taken prison er by the Germans nfler his machine (had fallen inside the lines The plane with one wing demolished went into 0 nose dive and fell several hundred feel Out of Ihe wreck Seymotih struggled for bifl freedom and. although serious ly injured, managed to free hlme If onh to he taken prisoner. His lite as la prisoner lastei hul forty minutes. Yankee patrol' appearing, recovered the liver and took a score of Uermans. Sej mour has I number of friends here and is well known in Utah as a bicycle rider.