High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Colonel Raynal Cawthorne Bolling (Raynal pronounced as in "canal") (September 1, 1877 -March 26, 1918) was the first high-ranking U.S. officer to be killed in combat in World War I. He laid the foundation for the United States Army Air Service in the American Expeditionary Force. He was ambushed by German troops near the front lines on the Amiens-Saint-Quentin road (the modern N29) during the second Somme offensive. The spot is a few kilometers east of the commune of Estrees-Deniecourt, Picardy, France. He was the namesake of Bolling Air Force Base. Born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, from 1909 on he was a resident of Greenwich, Connecticut at his estate Greyledge on Doubling Rd. The estate was razed in 2006 by its current owner despite a public outcry. Near the town commons a life-size bronze statue cast by the Gorham Foundry of Rhode Island sculpted by Edward Clark Potter serves as his memorial. The Indiana limestone background of the memorial shows aircraft in combat in low relief.

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