WAR

gilbert sardier of Clermont-Ferrand, the present Representative of the French
National Association of Aces, was born in Riom ( Puy-de-D6me ) on May 5, 1897.
(A graduate of the Faculte de Droit of Paris, he has for many years been associated
with the La Nationale assurance company, and is the author of a number
of books on aviation
and space travel.)
With the Mobilization in August 1914, Sardier entered the
Chasseurs d'Afrique.
Like the rest of the cavalry troops he was unhorsed by the stagnation of the
trench war and began to consider aviation as a means of getting back into the war
and out of the mud. Toward the end of 1915, he was accepted for flying training
and was sent to Pau to begin the standard "Bleriot school" instruction.
Cyr he won his military pilot's brevet in a Caudron G.3 in April 1916.
At Buc-St-
Sardier.
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