Show Salt Lake Youth Is Given French Croix De Guerre for Valor S r RODERICK REDERIC G G. REDMAN REiDMAN o of Salt suit Lake who has been J decorated dec dec- F 1 orated with French war ar ro ross s for valor shown bho in driving motor molar ambulance amid ram rain of shot and anti shell shelf p. p c- c l 0 S. S t I II I II I F II I S 4 4 1 I I fr I j I I 4 e 4 I I E i I Presenta Presentation tion Is Made lv on Firing Line to Frederick G. G Redman n driving his ambulance to the Fn rescue of the wounded again and again under the shells of ot the enemy Frederick G G. G Redman Redman Red Red- man 26 6 years cars of age e son o of B. B F F. F Redman of or the Redman nedman Fireproof I Storage e company has been awarded the thc French war cross or Ot Croix De DeGuerre Guerre lIe He I la now at the tho front with an American ambulance compan company com corn pan pany and the tho stor story of the battle In III which his lila bravery attracted the attention at- at of or hl his superior officers Is one of the thc most thrilling and intimate ac accounts accounts ac- ac counts that have ever come from Crom tho scene of or the great struggle He Redman man knew nothing of the fact that his bravery braver had been noted and following the battle ho he applied for Cor a a. furlough in Paris JI 8 Upon his return to tho the firing tiring line lino ho he was rr greeted b by bythe bythe the congratulations of or his comra comrades el eland and was M-as later awarded rl tho cross cros for bravery brayer The comment which accompanied accompanied ac ac- ac- ac companied tho the cro s M was waR written In French but the translation follows The he principal doctor o of the Second division lon Medical division cites to the tho order o of the tho Sanitary formations the soldiers soldier whose names follows Redman Frederick G C. American driver el No 5 Utah A A. courageous driver modest and alwa always s read ready to accomplish tho the most perilous perilous peril peril- ous ou missions Redman Hedman Is the tho second Utah boy to win the tho Fr French war ar cross cros as Julian Burton Durton another ambulance driver was as a awarded warded the tho same ame honor for bravery some somo time tune ago Redman nedman en enlisted enlisted enlisted en- en listed September 26 with the AmerIcan American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean field fiel ambulance service He was ws wasat at Verdun for three months and has seen much active service The Tho letter letter let let- ter In which he describes the tho battle battle hattIe bat hat tle tIe during which ho distinguished himself follows follos SH SHELTERS EL ARRANGED Paris Parts March 27 i 1918 My 1 Dear Folks Folks Vell Well hero I 1 am amIn amIn amin in Paris on my furlough and how good it seems to be in a place where you can wash up and feet feel like ike a a. white man again agan It is Yer very ery beautiful ful here lucre now a as the trees tree and shrubbery shrubbery shrub shrub- ber bery arc beginning to turn green and everyone Is wearing ea th their h spring clothes I hope it is a a. nice day on ott J Easter ster so that I will bo be able to see what It is like in Paris on that da day The Tho people are rather nervous oUa about air raids and at every overy noise the they stop to ste IO what it Is You have havo read lead in the papers Japers I guess that the lie Bodies Boches have been shelling this 1218 town to with on long range rans-e guns uns that shoot a distance of sixty miles I haven't seen or heard one com come in hi yet ct and cannot believe that it is true The They arc making places of or shelter all over o the tue city In the event of or air ral raids ll etc and are arc covering up the statues and monuments with tandI tand- tand b mugs gs so the they lucy will not be ha destroyed cd I h by the steel elect splinters of oC the lie I bombs homb or I I will have ha to tell you about the little party P wr wn had hart at the front just jUll he before foro I J left lert for tor my permission Th French were ere going to attack and had h all made mad and we re received re- re relve orders to move up close the tho cia day ilay before The lieutenant picked the men mon who were to go up and I Iwas I I was as one of or them The fia day of ot the attack James and I er chosen to go o up with our cars and wait wall at the lie advanced poste dc do se secours secours se se- cours dressing Th The posto oste was only onh about SOO yards ards behind the lie first line trenches so you OU see Wew we w were rc pr pretty lt close It was a beautiful beautiful ful fut day and we wo sat EAt in front of ot the poste talking to our sergeant when all nil of or a sudden Rudden we e heard the fa familiar familiar familiar fa- fa 1 bang nl and a Bocho Bocha shell broke across the road Luckily it hit In the soft earth or I 1 probably wouldn't be writing this now The clat didn't hit lilt any of or us but we got covered with mud and nd stones Wo We all nil fell In a heap hoap and nd th then n showed all kinds of or speed In III getting Into the or dugout No sooner had hat we gotten Inside when another Ont ono broke and took oft off a corner of ot the house houlle over the We e timed the shells and the they lucy came me In ev e every ry minute minute min min- ute tile and a t half halt from Crom 2 o'clock In the afternoon until 7 Z that night The French opened up their arra barrage 6 about 2 o'clock and the noise was so 80 deafening that it was hard to hear a hout The They had several batteries of or guns JUns within a few feis' yards yard from Usand us usand usand and many machine guns that were shooting Indirectly on the tho German roads and at their artillery menThe men The UThe Boche stopped shooting for tor about ten minutes during the art afternoon after after- r- r noon so Oo five stretcher bearers went vent out of ot th the abu ahus to see ice if It there the were ere allY wounded Mounded laying In the road out out- side No Xu sooner had they stepped 1 out when Fritz threw In iii a shell hell that dropped right In Iii front of ot th thabus bu and caught all alt five of ot them A ApIece Apiece piece of or through the door and wounded a French officer who was sitting Bitting- next to m ins me and the ex ex- knocked me lOe back hack a against the bet wall H It was my 10 first experience in seeing a 8 shell break and catch men nien The screams the they let out were ere certainly certainly horrifying ln One man had bad sixteen sixteen six six- Ix- Ix teen ton pieces of steel In him Julia and died soon loon after arter and another died after I got Jot him to the hospital WOUNDED BROUGHT IN At C r. o'clock in the evening our troops went over the top and b by 7 1 there lucre were so man many wounded coming In that tho the was getting over over- crowded The French officer In charge har t would not let lei us start out outon outon on account of or the heavy bombardment bombard bombard- ment merit but so mall many were coming In that wo we 0 had to make mak a break soon Jim and anil I had bad our cars about yards away next to a 0 thick wall alI so o os as s to protest them from When hen we made a break for fOl our cars carR you ou ought to have seen us move It was nearl nearly dark clark and the moko smoke 0 of the th guns uns made It hard to see sec but hut I 1 lost no time Into In lii getting m my car started and pulling it up un In front 0 of the tho poste The whole side sido and back of or Jim's Jims c car cr r was blown out but hut only a L few small pieces of or steel wont vent I through mine No N sooner had bad I J pulled my car carup carup carup up In lii front of or the and was going go go- oIn o- o ing In In to tell them I was ready read when a Bache shell came through the window window window win win- dow and failed ailed to explode thank hea heaven n Everyone EVerone was nervous ncr The stretcher-bearers stretcher would not give i e me mem memy memy m my full load as it took too much time to load Joad them during such a violent vio yb- lent bombardment When I started starel Ill I'll t tell the tho world orld I I moved mo and tile although it was as dark I kept In the road and Instinct told me mo when to turn out for or a shell hole In the road Farther down the road the camouflage cam cam- was all torn down and the thero ro road d was perforated with shell holes J I finall finally got ot through and felt Celt much muck relieved when I got my wounded on onI the main road to the hospital The big guns suns of oC the tho French which were I located a few Cew miles back were bl blazIng blitz blaz- z- z t ln Ing hg aw away t from all aU points Just as I w was about to rc reach ach the hospital one ono of or tho ho grandmothers blazed awa away right over my head bead and the concussion ma made e my little volture voi- voi ture do the one step My Iy tin lin hat went over on one side and my mr ears earn rang ranJ for half halt nit nil hour The next trip I made was rather quiet and didn't see a shell come In in and about 4 in the he morning wo had all the lie wounded out and were or ordered ordered or- or dered dared to cantonment to get some sonic restI restI rest I met the general on out the road a along along long back lie was waft evidently evident evident- l ly 1 watching the he battle lie He stopped me and said that our boys bos had lone don fine work and ho he was Cry very proud of lIf us Ul He lie certainly is ts a wonderful man and every Urn ho s 5 sees vs us ho lie alwa always s 's gives f us the th glad Iad smile Well ell ell thit that's t s 's the lie end of or tho the story nf or that battle so rIO will e B semul Mul this hii Ulland up Ull and catch a little sleep Lo Love FRED |