Background
Alexander Agnew McCormick, Junior. was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Chicago Evening Post editor and Chicago city alderman Alexander Agnew "A. A." McCormick, Senior and Maude Warner.
Alexander Agnew McCormick, Junior. was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Chicago Evening Post editor and Chicago city alderman Alexander Agnew "A. A." McCormick, Senior and Maude Warner.
He attended the University of Chicago High School, and entered Yale University with the Class of 1919.
He enlisted as a Seaman (2nd Class) in the United States. Naval Aviation Forces on 16 April 1917 and trained at Buffalo, New York with the Aerial Coast Patrol Unit Number. 2, which had been organized at Yale shortly after the United States declared war on Germany. He was commissioned in the United States. Naval Reserve Force as an ensign on 2 November 1917 and was stationed at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, until 28 May 1918.
He was assigned to Squadron 214 of the Royal Air Force and served in France.
On 24 September 1918, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) McCormick received fatal injuries in battle while an aerial gunner with the Northern Bombing Group in a mission near Calais. He received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, post obitum, honoris causa, from Yale University in June 1919.
He had been selected for membership in Skull and Bones. His remains now lie at the Somme American Cemetery in Aisne, France.
The destroyer United States Ship McCormick (Doctor of Divinity-223) was named for him.