Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-06 | Page 2 | Names of Heroes Made Public by General Pershing

NAMES OF HEROES MADE PUBLIC BY GENERAL PERSHING WITH THF, AMERICAN ARMY IN FRAXCK, March 4. It is now permissible to give the names of the officers and men decorated yesterday by Premier Clemen-eeau. Clemen-eeau. They are: Lieutenant Joseph Canbv, Brooklyn, X. Y. Lieutenant "William Coleman, Charleston, Charles-ton, S. t Sergeant Patrick YaIsh. Sergeant YViilinm Norton. Private "Buddy" Pitt man, Brooklyn, X. Y. Private Alvin Smiley, St. Louis. The sergeants have been in the army for many years. Serjeant Walsh formerly for-merly lived in Uetroit and Sergeant Norton Nor-ton in Arkansas. Both tliu privates distinguished themselves them-selves by running through the barrage laid down by the Germans during the raid and delivering messages. Two artillery offh ers Ca)tain ITnltzen-dorfl", ITnltzen-dorfl", whose home is in Georgia, and Lieutenant Lieu-tenant GretMi will receive the Kreni-h war cross. They wore wounded by shell fire. Lieutenants Ounby and Coleman went out into No Man's lund in daylight and eaeii took a i. lerman prisoner. Serjeant Norton killed a German lieutenant and two soldiers. 7 le was eha denied by the lieutenant to have his dugout and led out his men fihtinsj. Serjeant Walsh tonk command of a detachment in front of the wire when his captain was killed and continued the fight.