![]() She added, “I have no family members who want the albums, and I don’t want them to end up in the landfill. I wish I had more information, but it has taken me 15 years to put together just whose funeral my grandfather attended overseas.”Ĭarol went on to explain that her grandfather’s photo albums, along with the broken-off propellor tip, had passed down to her father, who died in 2008. Cutler, but my paternal grandfather, Edward Vincent Triplett (1902-1978) served with him and attended his funeral in Germany. (Disclaimer – the funeral procession is definitely for Cutler, but despite the inscription on the back of the other 1921 photo, it is not 100% certain that the dapper leather-clad man standing in front of the DH-4 plane is actually Cutler.)Ĭarol wrote, “I am not related to Lt. He was 30 years old.Ī recent out-of-the-blue email from Carol Triplett Radven of Tomball, Texas led to a poignant artifact donation for the Medfield Historical Society: three albums with photos from the 1920s of men in in Germany in the Army Air Service, and photos of Cutler’s funeral procession – and, from Cutler’s wrecked plane, the tip of the propellor, with an engraving. He was killed January 28, 1921, when his deHavilland DH-4 crashed in Irlich, Germany. ![]() He became a pilot in World War I, trained other pilots, and stayed in the service after the war ended in November, 1918. ![]() Medfield’s first honor square, at the intersection of North, Main, and Pleasant streets, was created by a town meeting vote in 1921 in memory of Clarence Meredith Cutler.Ĭutler was the valedictorian at Medfield High School in 1910, a mere seven years after the Wright brothers’ first flight.
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