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Show Corporal McMonagle, Who Was Killed in Aerial Battle in France, Is Honored. I tM MOTHER GIVEN AWARD H Other- Members of LaFayette Escadrille Promoted and Awarded Decorations. HEADQUARTERS OF THE LA. A FAYETTE ESCADRILLE, Saturday. r' Nov. 3. Members of the LaFayette 1 escadrille representing Mrs. Beverly j jH I MacMonagle, today, received in her ; MM behalf the Cross of War, with Palm, MM awarded to her son, Corporal Douglas IH MacMonagle of San Francisco, who was killed in an air combat on the I . VM French front on September 24. Cor- ' 'MM I poral MacMonagle is cited as a "skill- '- j j 'jM j cd pilot, worthy of the highest praise j ( i for his courage and unselfish devo- j 1 tion to duty." Corporal MacMonagle ' J 'MM previously had bpn awarded the cross ' of war for bravery while an American . ambulance driver on the French front. 1 1 IH Lieutenant Louis Verdler Fauvety J has been appointed second in com- ft JH I mand of the escadrille, taking the tH place of Captain Georges Thcnault. t ''H Lieutenant Fauvety is a patrol leader, ( H of exceptional ability. His brother, Paul Fauvety, is a San Francisco bus iness man. Sergeant Robert L. Rockwell of Cin-cinnati, Cin-cinnati, was cited in orders and award. jH ed the cross of war on October 29 for i'I bringing down an enemy machine. , nl 00 , |