f a m i l y Children with: Jeanne Marie Bernard de Menthon Children: Mathilde "Mimi" Boal Mary Elizabetrh Boal Pierre de Lagarde Boal Born: 1895 Sep 29, Thonon les Bain, Haute Savoie, France Married 1919, Paris, to Jeanne Marie Bernard de Menthon Died: 1966 May 24, Paris, France Occupation: Diplomat, US Ambassador Image gallery (5 images) St. Paul's School, Concord NH, Class of 1915 (registerd as Theodore Davis Boal Jr). Pierre Denis de Lagarde Boal, succeeded (quite irregularly) in enlisting in the French cavalry, 1st Regiment of Cuirassiers, in 1915. He later transferred to the Lafayette Flying Corps (5/24/16 to 2/1/17, unit: Avord). He attended the aviation school at Buc, France, 5 June 16 to 1 Feb 17. He served in the US Air Service (then called the Signal Corps). From mid-1918 onward he was officer-in-charge of the American G.D.E. a parallel effort to the French Groups des Division d'Entrainment. He later was made commander of the 400th Air Squadron overseas. At the end of the war he was the supervising officer of the American pilots and observers detached to French. In France he set up the final flight training station at Plessis-Belleville. Here he driected the assignment of Air Service teams, graduating from Breguet or SPAD familiarization, to the Escadrilles. He kept track of each of the airmen while in French service. He served in the U.S. Foreign Service in Mexico City, Belgrade, Warsaw, Berne, Lima, Ottawa, Geneva, Bolivia and Nicaragua. In 1929 he served as the acting secretary general of a commission credited with averting a war between Bolivia and Paraguay. He retired in 1947. Honors received: Purple Heart (WWI) Lafayette Flying Corps ribbon France's Croix de Guerre Legion of Honor the Order of St. Sava of Yugoslavia Peru's Commander Order of the Sun Buried in the Boal family crypt in Boalsburg

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