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Theodore Roosevelt
Quentin Roosevelt
2nd Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Service
Born on Friday, November 19, 1897 - Died on Sunday, July 14, 1918
The fifth and youngest child of T.R. and Edith.
Nicknamed "Quentyquee" and "Quinikins".
Attended Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia, The Groton School,
Evans School for Boys, and Harvard University.
Awarded the Croix de Guerre with Palm in WWI.
Engaged to Flora Payne Whitney, great-granddaughter of
Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Founder of the infamous White House Gang.
His quick wit and mischievous nature prompted his mother, Edith, to label Quentin: "A fine bad little boy."
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In 1916, Quentin left Harvard to train as an aviator at the Long Island airfield later renamed in his honor.
It was from this same field that Charles Lindbergh started his historic flight across the Atlantic.
Quentin was assigned to the 95th Air Squadron, and during an early patrol on July 14, 1918, his squad
encountered seven Fokkers that outmaneuvered his squadron's relatively slower Boche aircrafts.
Quentin was shot through the head twice, crashing near Chemery, France.
German military propagandists tastelessly peddled pictures of Quentin's disfigured body around the world,
pictures that eventually reached his family in Sagamore Hill.
Quentin was buried in Chemery, and was re-interred after World War II next to his brother Ted, Jr.,
who died after leading his squad onto Utah Beach during the D-Day Invasion.
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker said of Quentin: "Gay, hearty and absolutely square in everything he said or did,
Quentin Roosevelt was one of the most popular fellows in the group. We loved him purely for his own natural self."
On July 14, 2008 on the 90th anniversary of Quentin's death, the villages of Saints, Mauperthuis and Touquin
held a commemoration of Quentin Roosevelt.
Download the 1921 edition of the tribute book, "Quentin Roosevelt", as digitized by Google Books.
The White House Gang
Alongside his White House Gang, the mischievous Quentin once carved a baseball diamond on the White House
lawn without permission, routinely defaced official presidential portraits with spitballs, and threw snowballs at
Secret Service guards from the roof of the White House.
Arguably, Quentin's most famous transgression was bringing the pony Algonquin to Archie's room via the White House
elevator in an effort to help "cheer up" a convalescing Archie.
A favorite of the press, Quentin once quipped to a reporter trolling for information about the President:
"I see him occasionally, but I know nothing of his family life."
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"I see him occasionally, but I know nothing of his family life."
QUENTIN ROOSEVELT
November 19, 1897 - July 14, 19182nd Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Service
ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH
February 12, 1884 - February 20, 1980"The Other Washington Monument"
THEODORE ROOSEVELT JR.
September 13, 1887 - July 12, 1944Brigadier General, U.S. Army
Medal of Honor Recipient
KERMIT ROOSEVELT
October 10, 1889 - June 3, 1943Captain, U.S. Army
ETHEL CAROW ROOSEVELT DERBY
August 13, 1891 - December 10, 1977
ARCHIBALD BULLOCH ROOSEVELT
April 9, 1894 - October 13, 1979Lt. Colonel, U.S. Army
HOMES OF THE ROOSEVELT FAMILY
