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Show Ui TUCKER oposs Hero of Soissons and St. Mihiel Has Two Wound Stripes. CAMP KEARNY, Cal., May 15. Twice wounded In two engagements in France, Major Albert Sidney Johnston Tucker, now serving" here with the Thirty-second regiment, toiay received the French croix de guerre. The ceremony of presentation took place on the parade ground. Mfijor Tucker is the son of H. St. Ceorge Tucker or' Lexington, Ky former president presi-dent of the American Bar association, and a grandson, of General Albeit Sidney Johnston, famous Confederate commander in the civil war. Major Tucxer was connected con-nected with the Sixteenth infantry of the First division, and saw some of the heaviest heav-iest fighting for a year. He was a com pany commander in the Toul and Homme sectors, receiving his first wound in th operations in the latter sector at Can tigny. He also served in (he Soissons offensive, offen-sive, and commanded an assault battaJion at the battle of St. Mihiel and in the fiercest fighting in the Argonne. where he received his second wound The croix de guerre was ordered for Major Tucker by Marshal Petaln. The presentation was made by Major General Frederick R. Strong, commander of the camp, the Thirty-second regiment and band being drawn up in hollow square formation. |