Quentin Roosevelt - Son of Theodore Roosevelt - Almanac of Theodore Roosevelt

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Quentin Roosevelt
1st Lieutenant, U.S. Air Force
November 19, 1897 - July 14, 1918

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By far the favorite of all of
President Roosevelt's children,
Quentin was also the most rambunctious. Nicknamed "Quentyquee" and "Quinikins" by his father, Quentin shared T.R.'s physical, intellectual, and linguistic characteristics. Quentin's behaviour prompted his mother, Edith, to label him a "fine bad little boy". Amongst Quentin's many adventures with the "White House Gang" (a name assigned by T.R. to Quentin and his friends), Quentin carved a baseball diamond on the White House lawn without permission, defaced official presidential portaits in the White House with spitballs, and threw snowballs from the
White House's roof at unsuspecting Secret Service guards.
Quentin attended Washington's Force Public School, Groton, and Harvard.
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 continued his training overseas and was eventually assigned to the 95th Air Squadron. During an early patrol on July 14, 1918, Quentin's squad encountered seven Fokkers who proved too much of an adversary for Quentin's squadron's slow 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 which eventually reached his family in Sagamore Hill.
President Roosevelt was never the same after Quentin died, and was inconsolable despite the more than 2000 letters and telegrams sent to him to convey the love and respect he and Quentin had commanded throughout their lives.
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.

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