Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-09 | Page 12 | U. S. Woman Honored by Belgian Queen

U. S. WOMAN HONORED BY BELGIAN QUEEN SACRAMENTO. Cal., July 8. The medal of Queen Elizabeth, the personal decoration of the queen of the Belgians, was received here today with letters from the Belgian legation at Washington, an.. a brevet from the Belgian minister of foreign affairs, conferring it upon Mih, Ben S. Allen, who, so far as can be learned, is the first American woman to undergo shell fire during the European war. Accompanying Ken S. Allen, her husband, Mrs. Allen visited Belgian headquarters head-quarters at Furnes in December, 1914, and did her Christmas shopping while shells screamed overhead. Mr. Allen recently received the decoration decora-tion of chevalier of the Order of the Crown in recognition of his services as a member of the commission for relief in Belgium. He is a newspaper publisher here.