Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1918 — WINS SERVICE CROSS [ARTICLE]

WINS SERVICE CROSS

Yank Ambulance Driver Decorated for Heroic Work. Wounded in Head and Lege He Cares for Injured Man, Then Crawls to Hospital. £ . Paris.—Several wounds In the head and both legs were not sufficient to deter Private Albert S. Hartwell from aiding another wounded American soldier. Suffering Intense pains from his wounds, received when a shell broke near him, Hartwell carried the other wounded boy to a dressing statlpn for help. His bravery and self-sacrifice have brought him the award of the distinguished service cross from General Pershing. Hartwell, an American, had been living in Paris with his mother, Mrs. Pauline Nellie Hartwell, 16 Rue Ponereu. He is a member of the United States army ambulance, serving with the French army, and had been gassed on July 18. The citation reads: “He repeatedly drove his ambulance over a road east of Reims that was under bombardment of gas and explosive shells. On one occasion, while cranking his car, he was knocked several yards by the explosion of a shell, yet he continued his work. Another day his car was hit by a shell and badly damaged and he himself was badly wounded in the head and both legs. In spite of his wounds he carried a wounded man who was in the ambulance to a place of safety, made him comfortable, and then crawled to a dressing station for assistance."