For sale is a Rare WW1 United States Air Service Quentin Roosevelt Combat Pilots 1918 Grave Photograph Postcard. This photograph was reproduced in 1918, and turned into postcards like this one for sale here. The grave of Quentin Roosevelt; written on the cross, "Here rests on the field of honor 1st Lieut. Quentin Rossevelt, Air Serivce, USA killed in action, July 1918." This post card is in good condition but unfortunately a small chunk has been taken out of the top right hand side corner of the Post card. This postcard measures 8.6cm x 13.6cm

On July 14, 1918, Quentin Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt, died outside of Chamery, France, his Nieuport 28 shot down by a German pilot. The Germans buried him there with full military honors and a wooden cross held together by wire from his aircraft. A few days later, American soldiers took the area and replaced the German cross with one of their own. The French added a wooden enclosure. To American aviators and soldiers, the grave of Quentin Roosevelt became a shrine, his death a touchstone for service and sacrifice.

Quentin Roosevelt I (November 19, 1897 – July 14, 1918) was the youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt and First Lady Edith Roosevelt. Inspired by his father and siblings, he joined the United States Army Air Service where he became a pursuit pilot during World War I. He was killed in aerial combat over France on Bastille Day (July 14), 1918. He is the only child of a US President to die in combat.

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