Word: croix
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...entire personnel of the Brown University ambulance unit, which entered the Italian sector on Sept. 16, 1918, has been decorated with the croce al merito di guerra, the croix de guerre of Italy. There are 32 men in the unit, of whom 15 are from Brown. It originally contained only Brown men, but transfers and other causes resulted in the substitution of outsiders to fill the complement...
...college man myself, but my brothers were Harvard men. One of them Major Edward P. Cole '04 fell mortally wounded at the Battle of Belleau Wood. For bravery and gallantry on the field of battle' he received the Croix de Guerre, the Distinguished Service Cross and the French Legion of Honor...
Captain Melvin Holmes Leonard '19 has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for gallantry in action at Soissons, July 18, 1918. He had been previously awarded the Croix de Guerre with a citation for volunteering for a dangerous mission in the attack at Vaux, near Chateau-Thierry, last July...
Lieutenant Paul Borda Kurtz A.B. '16 was killed in action while flying near Toul, May 22, 1918. He was one of the first to enlist in the American Ambulance, becoming chief of Section 18, April 17, 1917. In May of the same year he was decorated with the Croix de Guerre for extraordinary heroism near Mort Homme at Verdun. In July of 1917 he left the Ambulance and enlisted in the American air service. That fall he was commissioned a 1st Lieutenant...
Luther R. Bailey '18, son of Dr. Marshall H. Bailey, has recently received his third citation. He enlisted February, 1917, as an ambulance driver in the French Army and has served continuously since then. Early in 1918 he was first cited and received the Croix de Guerre. Later he received a citation with the palm for "showing utter disregard of danger during an attack while keeping up communication between advanced posts despite extreme barrage fire, during which his ambulance was struck by numerous fragments of shell". His last citation, word of which has just been received, was for "particularly distinguishing...