Tombstone of an American aviator who fought for Poland in the Kosciuszko Squadron at Wildwood Cemetery in Menchester - plot (lot) 1994 at Lily Path at Mountain Ave. alley, number (memorial ID) 194060015.

This is a modest gravestone - an unshaped granite boulder partially sunk into the ground. It is 65 cm high at the front, 78 at the back, and 122 cm wide. On the boulder is an equally modest inscription of recessed letters filled in with black paint:

NOBLE / 1891 EDWIN L. 1951 / 1895 SUSAN P. 1981. //.

This is in memory of Edwin Lawrence Noble and his wife, Susan Phillips. In front of the boulder, at a distance of 143 cm, is a 30 x 61 cm rectangular brass plaque placed on the surface of the ground detailing that the buried is a Second Lieutenant (Second Lieutenant) of the US Army Air Corps from the First World War.

Edwin Lawrence Noble was born on 23 August 1891 in Charlestown, a suburb of Boston. He received an engineering degree from Sheffield Scientific School (part of Yale University) and went to work as a general manager for his family's Noble Milk Co. He joined the US Air Service in 1917 and, after training at Mineola Field, was posted to France, from where he returned home at the end of the war.

He joined the Polish Air Force as a volunteer and served in it from 1 September 1919 to May 1920 in the 7th Tadeusz Kościuszko Fighter Squadron, or the famous Kosciuszko Squadron. Associated with the Kosciuszko Squadron were 19 American pilots, none of whom had Polish roots. During the Polish-Bolshevik War, beginning in December 1919, the squadron's American and Polish pilots flew more than 460 combat flights, conducting intensive reconnaissance and attacking ground targets.