Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-10-21 | Page 29 | Boy, 12 Wins Badge of Courage Saves Life under Hot Fire Study Face of Soldier Hero of 12

0 on n no n. n Boy 12 Wins fins Badge of Courage Saves Life Under Hot Fire I Study Face of Soldier Hero of 12 r i w Feodor i. i Kulich ulich Russian Scout Makes tv Three Trips Through Battlefield Cannonade to Rescue Wounded Siberian By Special News Service Oct 20 O.-l O. Feeder codor Kulich Ku Iu lich nus Russian ian boy scout of or 1 12 wears scars the Red fled Dade Cadge of Coura Courage c. c It is on his left eft sleeve Just above o the wrist H Ho got ot it Ba saving Bavins Ivan an a Siberian soldier from Crom death Feodor had lived near neat And hero n near ar the war frontier Feodor was a member of or a company of boy scouts which went oven even tip to the thc first lines to serve the Russian arm army In recent fighting In the main the Russians held their ground nut But the line had been heen weakened weak weal ned cued by the dispatch of divisions northward to the territory about Riga and In spots it gave A At t the close of several ra days das of or scattered scattered scat scat- fighting the tho Austrian troops had been pushed back to to their ol old front And In th these E contested sectors once more mor In the hands hl of the nus Russians ians the battlefield was still littered with scattered scattered scat scat- dead and wound wounded Id bo boy scouts were working behind tho time new Russian first lines but still in tho tiro zone of ot the thC bitter bombardment the time checked Austrians kept up Feodor Kulich found tho the Siberian soldier Korovin in a The soldier had dragged himself Into tho crater for protection a after ter receiving his wound He had been almost two days without without without with with- out food or water The Tho 12 year boy made the first trip to side under heavy Y fire when he was attracted by the waving of ot the mans man's arm ann over the rim of ot the tho shell crater Little Feodor though the firing had bad hardly slackened made a second trip to Korovin's Korovin temporary shelter bringing bringing bring bring- ing lug food and water and bandages But even after alter the youngster had cut away the filthy cloth and awa away the clotted blood th the wounded wo I Siberian could not walk So Feodor started back hack for help I He was shot In the left shoulder But with his hight hand the boy pinched d a a roll ron of bandage tightly against the wound to prevent bleeding and trudged back to the field hos hos- pital There after his shoulder had been tied up he insisted upon guiding stretcher bearers to side He lie knew for the tho wounded soldier It was wasa a case of ot early arly rescue or of ot death was al almost almost al- al most mORt within reach of ot safety In the re repeated repeated re- re Austrian offensives And for a third time the boy Feodor despite his wound made tho trip from the safety of or the field hospital behind the ridge across the tho torn shell plain in tho zone of fire Feodor's courageous example in inspired inspired in- in the troops of ot that front and news of It spread d to district headquarters and even to Petrograd And Koro KorOt- vin ready to return to the ranks stood by the side of or year old while the Red Badge of Courage given to wounded was pinned pinne on I the wrist of the youngest wounded war hero who ha has thus far placed his name In the tho list of ot the almost Innumerable innumerable i I erable Instances of heroism o on the Russian front I