Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1918 — DECORATED FOR BRAVERY [ARTICLE]

DECORATED FOR BRAVERY

South Bend, May 9.—Lieut. Harry J. Kelley of Ottawa, Illinois, a student at the University of Notre Dame until he entered the war, has been decorated by the French government for bravery and heroism on the field of battle and also for bravery shown at Verdun, where he rescued several wounded soldiers I from a hospital, which was being shelled by the Huns. Unable to I get into the service here, he went to Chicago and was in a long line of applicants when a sergeant approached him with the query: “What’s your name and where are you from?” “Kelley of Notre Dame,” was the answer. “Oh, you’re one of those fighting Irish, are you? Well, we wamt you.” He was trained at Fort Sheridan. Young Kelley Is a nephew of the Halligan’s of Rensselaer, and his name in the American casualty list a few days ego as

having been badly wounded. He had a leg shot off in an encounter with the Germans.