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flew a Burgess-Wright hydro from Marblehead to Gloucester, Massachusetts, and return for an exhibition at a local celebration. On August 29th he flew both land and water planes in exhibitions at Barnstable, Cape Cod, and September 12th to 14th gave an exhibition in a [[strikethrough]]H[[/strikethrough]][[insert]]h[[/insert]]ydro at Sturbridge, Massachusetts. About this time he was also giving instructions to Lt. T. G. Ellyson of the Navy. September 24th to 27th he flew a land plane exhibition at the Rochester, New Hampshire[[insert]],[[/insert]] Fair. His instruction duties kept him busy through October. His pupils included Frazier Curtis who had previously taken some instruction at the Curtiss School at North Island, San Diego, [[crossed out]] and he [[/crossed out]] [[insert]]Page[[/insert]] also continued flight test on new model planes. In November he started giving Norman Prince further instructions and began teaching Lt. Loren H. Call and Henry L. Brownback of Philadelphia, and in December Lt. E. L. Ellington was one of his pupils. 

As the year ended, Page left Burgess and gave up active flying for a time. On March 7th, 1914, he became a member of the U.S. Aviation Reserves and responded to the call in World War I, enlisting as a Naval Aviator in April, 1917. May 15th, 1917, Page became an instructor at the [[insert]]Naval Base at[[/insert]] Squantum, Massachusetts, [[strikethrough]] Naval Base,[[/strikethrough]] where he remained during the summer months. November 10th he sailed for France for assigned duty overseas. There he lost his life by drowning in the Channel near the English coast in a seaplane accident on December 17th, 1917. 

Flying Pioneer Phillips W. Page was an active, competent early pilot who justly earned a well deserved place in early American aviation history, finally giving his life to the cause of his country. During his flying career he assisted in the tests and development of some of the early Burgess planes and taught many renowned civilian and military aviators to fly. His name appears on the Wright Memorial Plaque at Dayton, Ohio, along with the other airmen who learned to fly there on Wright machines.

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