Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1918 — SIX AMERICANS SOLDIERS GET FRENCH WAR CROSS [ARTICLE]

SIX AMERICANS SOLDIERS GET FRENCH WAR CROSS

With The American Army In France, March s.—lt is now permissible to give the names of the American officers and men decorated with the French war cross yesterday by Premier Clemenceau. They are: f Lieutenant Joseph Canby, Brooklyn, N. Y. Lieutenant William Coleman, Charleston, S. C. . Sergeant Patrick Walsh. Sergeant William Norton. Private Buddy Pittman, Brooklyn, N. Y. Private Alvin Smiley, St. Louis. The sergeants have been in the army many years. Sergeant Walsh formerly lived in Detroit and Sergeant Norton in Arkansas. Both the privates distinguished themselves by running through a barrage laid down by the Germans during the raid and delivering messages. Two artillery officers—Captain Holtzendorff, whose home is in Georgia, and Lieutenant Green—will receive the French war cross. They were wounded by shell fire. Lieutenants Canby and Coleman went out into no man’s land in daylight and each took a German prisoner. Sergeant Norton killed a German lieutenant and two soldiers. He was challenged by the lieutenants to leave-his dugout and led out his men fighting. Sergeant Walsh took command of a detachment in front of the .wire when his captain was killed and continued the fight.