HUGO SCHMIDT, LCDR, USN
Hugo Schmidt '16
Lucky Bag
From the 1916 Lucky Bag:
Loss
Hugo was lost on February 27, 1928, when the plane he was aboard crashed en route to Annapolis.
He was designated naval aviator #2897 in 1920.
Hugo is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Rogers Ransehousen '21 and Theodore Ellyson '05 were also lost in this crash.
The "Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps" was published annually from 1815 through at least the 1970s; it provided rank, command or station, and occasionally billet until the beginning of World War II when command/station was no longer included. Scanned copies were reviewed and data entered from the mid-1840s through 1922, when more-frequent Navy Directories were available.
The Navy Directory was a publication that provided information on the command, billet, and rank of every active and retired naval officer. Single editions have been found online from January 1915 and March 1918, and then from three to six editions per year from 1923 through 1940; the final edition is from April 1941.
The entries in both series of documents are sometimes cryptic and confusing. They are often inconsistent, even within an edition, with the name of commands; this is especially true for aviation squadrons in the 1920s and early 1930s.
Alumni listed at the same command may or may not have had significant interactions; they could have shared a stateroom or workspace, stood many hours of watch together… or, especially at the larger commands, they might not have known each other at all. The information provides the opportunity to draw connections that are otherwise invisible, though, and gives a fuller view of the professional experiences of these alumni in Memorial Hall.
January 1917
Ensign, USS Sampson
March 1918
Lieutenant, USS Sampson
January 1919
Lieutenant, USS Breckenridge
January 1920
Lieutenant, USS Breckenridge
January 1921
Lieutenant, Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida
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January 1922
Lieutenant, under instruction, Naval Academy
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May 1923
Lieutenant, Bureau of Aeronautics, Washington, D.C.
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July 1923
Lieutenant, Bureau of Aeronautics, Washington, D.C.
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September 1923
Lieutenant, for assignment, Aircraft Squadrons, Battle Fleet, USS Aroostook
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November 1923
Lieutenant, Aircraft Squadrons, Battle Fleet, USS Aroostook
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January 1924
Lieutenant, Aircraft Squadrons, Battle Fleet, USS Aroostook
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March 1924
Lieutenant, Aircraft Squadrons, Battle Fleet, USS Aroostook
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May 1924
Lieutenant, Observation Plane Squadron 1
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July 1924
Lieutenant, Observation Plane Squadron 2
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September 1924
Lieutenant, Observation Plane Squadron 2
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November 1924
Lieutenant, Observation Plane Squadron 2
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January 1925
Lieutenant, Naval Air Station San Diego
March 1925
Lieutenant, Naval Air Station San Diego
May 1925
Lieutenant, Naval Air Station San Diego
July 1925
Lieutenant, Naval Air Station San Diego
October 1925
Lieutenant, Naval Air Station San Diego
January 1926
Lieutenant, Naval Air Station San Diego
October 1926
Lieutenant, Naval Air Station San Diego
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January 1927
Lieutenant Commander, Naval Air Station San Diego
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April 1927
Lieutenant Commander, Naval Air Station San Diego
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October 1927
Lieutenant Commander, USS Lexington
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January 1928
Lieutenant Commander, USS Lexington
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Class of 1916
Hugo is one of 16 members of the Class of 1916 on Virtual Memorial Hall.