Word: croix
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...French ambulance service, a full account of their activities abroad has not been given by the CRIMSON. D. Rice '12, H. Suckley '10, E. J. Curley '04, S. Galatti '10, J. M. Mellen '17, and T. Putnam '16, captain of the University fencing team last year, all received Croix de Guerre from the French Government. Rice, Suckley, and Curley were cited to the army division, while Galatti, Mellen, and Putnam received citation to the Service de Sante de la Division. The service for which they were each given the Croix de Guerre may be learned from the following document which...
...Hill '10, in command of the ambulance division, had received the Croix de Guerre in November for his splendid work in organizing the motor ambulance service...
Joseph Manley Mellen '17, of Garden City, L. I., N. Y., has just been awarded the Croix de Guerre for conspicuous bravery under fire while driving an ambulance in the service of the American Ambulance Corps in France last summer...
...whole of the American section serving in the Vosges and Alsace has been cited in the Order of the Day for brilliant service. Such a citation automatically carries with it decoration with the "Croix de Guerre," which has already been conferred on two Harvard men in the section, H. D. Hale '13 and A. G. Carey '12. This section is under the command of Lovering Hill '10, and many of the drivers are Harvard men. It has entire charge of the work in that section...
...motor-cars in the field service, which has won by its efficiency the distinction of sole charge of the transport of wounded in two important sectors of the line. One American section as a whole and nearly a score of American drivers have won the coveted decoration--the Croix de Guerre--which France gives for courageous and brilliant service. During its existence of fourteen months the field service of the Ambulance has carried more than 125,000 wounded, and its growing capacity and efficiency will soon have doubled the number...