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Show IBOFM Officers and Privates Do Distinguished Dis-tinguished Acts of Bravery in Fight. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE. March 5. It is now per- miccililn In mvo thn nnmno nf ftdlfnra and men decorated yesterday by Premier Pre-mier Clemenceau. They arc: Lieut. Jo soph Canby, Brooklyn, N. Y. Lieut. William Coleman, Charleston, S. C. Sergt. Patrick Walsh. Sorgt. William Norton. Private "Biddy" Pittman, Brooklyn, N. Y. Private Alvin Eoiley, St. Lojis. The sergeants have been in the army for many jcars. Sergeant Walsh forinorly lived in Detroit and Sergeant Norton in Arkansas. Both the privates distinguished themselves by running through lho barrage laid down by the Germans during the raid and delivering messages. mes-sages. Two artillery ofllcers Captain Hol-tzendorff. Hol-tzendorff. whose home Is in Georgia, and Lieutenant Green will receive the French war cross. They were wounded by shell Are; Lieutenants Canby and Coleman went out into No Man's Land in daylight day-light and each took, a German prisoner. prison-er. Sergeant Norton killed a Gormnn lieutenant and two soldiers. Ho was challenged by. the lieutenant to leave his dugout and let out his men fighting. fight-ing. Sergeant Walsh took command of ti detachment In front of the wire wnen his captain wns killed and continued con-tinued the fight. nr. |