Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1918 — GETS THE CROIX DE GUERRE [ARTICLE]

GETS THE CROIX DE GUERRE

Captain Warner W. Carr, 9th U. S. Infantry, A. E. F., now stationed somewhere in France, was recently decorated with tne French war medal Croix de Guerre for c r rspicuous bravery. . One of his outposts was shot down and Capt. Carr went out into No Man's Land under heavy fire and brought the trooper to the first aid station. Capt. Carr escaped injury. Capt. Carr is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Carr, who now reside on a .farm in the vicinity of Chalmers. For many years Mr. Carr was engaged in the newspaper business at Oxford and Fowler and it was while assisting his father in the publication of the Fowler Leader that Warner Carr received his appointment to West Point. 'He graduated in 1915 and was assigned to duty in Die southwest during the Mexican trouble. He w’as with the first troops to go abroad and has seen much active service at the front.—Lafayette Journal. ——-