Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-06-26 | Page 11 | Americans Cited by French for Bravery

tiiis citedW" Gallant Acts of U. S. Soldiers Sol-diers in Action Are Described. WITH Tin: AMKRTCAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Monday, June 24. (By the Associated As-sociated Press.) Citations by the gen- , oral comniandins troops on the French ' front to which Americans are attached Include the following: Private Herbert L. Lennox "Auto j rifle; severely wounded and unable to re- tire, concealed auio rifle in bushes and, i with pistol in blouse, lay on ground until ' enemy passed. When the enemy had been driven back in a counter-attack, Lennox crawled back to the auto rifle and opened fire on the retreating enemy, en-emy, killing or wounding many." Private Axel Jermiason " Wounded, but refused to quit; acted as loader for automatic auto-matic rifles until too weak to continue; ordered to the rear, picked up the rifle of a wounded man and fought in the trenches until the enemy was repulsed." Sergea nt U. li. M or man Remained in fight, although seriously wounded, refusing refus-ing treat ment until others had been treated first." Captain William B. Woodward "Showed sound judgment and coolness in changing chang-ing the missions of his batteries, giving maximum assistance to the infajitry and protecting the artillery personnel." Major L. K. llohl "Rare courage and leadership in rallying remnants, oo si rong, of different organizations ; dispersed dis-persed by blowing up an ammunition dump." Lieutenant X. Anines-Brown "Efficiency "Effi-ciency and coolness in the evacuation of wounded at personal risk under trying conditions." Private Robert Kelson "Exposing himself him-self to heavy shell lire and acting as lookout." Sergeant Samuel Core "Worked for nearly two hours without cover, wiring in a strong point within sight of the enemy's en-emy's heavy shell nd machine gun fire." Sergeant R. K. Buekwalter "Wounded, before a fight, insisted on going forward with his section ; buried by a shell; remained re-mained at work until the end." Corporal Boies-law Sugmoeki "Unaided and with disregard to danger, killed several sev-eral German snipers who had inflicted casualties on the front line." Private Samuel D. McCain "Rescued a severely -wounded comrade, carrying him on his back across an area swept by machine ma-chine gun f ire ; carried another wounded comrade to a dressing station one kilometer kilo-meter under shell fire." Private Ross E. Read "Rescued a wounded comrade who became entangled in barbed wire during the height of machine ma-chine gun fire." Private George Laube "Gathered timbers tim-bers to complete a bombproof shelter under un-der a heavy machine gun fire." Sergeant Kenneth K. Burns "Voluntarily "Volun-tarily installed and maintained telephone lines under shell fire." Private Louis I. TMal "Maintained telephone line under shell fire." ' Private Oscar R. Knodeld "When communications com-munications failed, voluntarily went forward for-ward under shell fire and procured valuable valua-ble information on the progress of the fighting." 1 Private Albert A. Hazel tine "Passed over roads and fields under heavy shell fire to get information on the progress of the attack when the lines of communication com-munication failed." Captain William P. Crook "Displayed courage in maintaining telephone communications, com-munications, his great efficiency enabling his command to follow at all times the! progress of the fighting." Lieutenant George C. Cox and Lieu- ! tenant Tom P. Walker "Same service."