Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-21 | Page 4 | Western Soldiers Cited for Bravery

WESTEil sloes CITED m BRAVERY 1 Idaho, Montana and Arizona Ari-zona Represented in the List of Pershing. .Hcv-ral in'ermountain soldiers nre included in-cluded in the iwi'ioiis for bravery issued bv General .loon Prndiint:. Tijry itvlud-:: " "Second l-iput'-riiint Frank J ,uk .1 r., decea:- T wen ' y-sevnuh ;itrn tij 1 i air service. For t j-aoi-.liiiHry hcioim in action near trt. Mihi'l. Kmncc, 'l-i-rnff-'- l'.' to 'r. li'is. Ijieutenunt JaiKo, by ski!!, determination and hraverv. and ;n i.r.t- !;tce of henvy t-:V"iiy lire, sii''css-f sii''css-f u;;y destroyed eiiit eiieniy obstrrvation balloons in four days. Next of kin. Frank T '-(. father. 2-iJ0 West ZWonrue street, Phoenix. Ariz. "Private i'olnmbux Whipple. H company. com-pany. Forty-sev eni h Infantry. I lWi64ti.) For exlraorlinary heroism in action near Hazoches. France, AuKtist 1. 10 IS. Private Whipple crossed the Vesle river m faro of enemy fire and resc.ied a d rowing comrade in the deep, swift current of the stream. 1 lonie address, K-.ison Whipple, father, Show Low, Ariz. "Corporal .John W. "armer, H company, com-pany, 3iilst infantry. CNo. 22.". , Oa'i.) J -'or extraordinary heroism in action at Aude-narde, Aude-narde, Heleium, November 1, iOlX. Corporal Cor-poral Gamier was a member of a patrol sent out to reconnoiter the town of Audenarfje. This patrol discovered several sev-eral enemy maehinc-gun snipers' posts, located in buildings, which were enfilading enfilad-ing the streets of the town. With another an-other soldier. Corporal Carmer dodged from building to building, and, entering one of the houses containing a machine gun. captured two machine gunners. Home address, John Carmer. Hailey, Idaho. "Corporal Jesse Iarlin, deceased, B company, 27th infantry. For extraordinary extraor-dinary heroism in action at Juvigny, France, August 31, 10)8. Corpora! .Uarlin was one of a party of three officers and two men, who, armed with one German machine gun and three German rifles, attacked at-tacked a machine-gun nest held by seventy sev-enty Germans. Under terrific fire from the enemy, who laid down an artillery barrage upon their position, they concentrated concen-trated their rifles so effectively that thirty-two Germans surrendered within an hour. After the prisoners had been brought in, Corporal Martin, with a private, pri-vate, established another machine gun In an advanced position and kept up a concentrated con-centrated fire on the Germans until he was wounded in the body five times by i machine-gun bullets. Home address, H. G. Pall, Billings, Mont." i