Word: croix
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...remembered pays with a new-to-me Section. The men are a splendid bunch--the French staff congenial--and the division is a crack one. Two Chasseur Battalions and two infantry regiments--all but one of the Chasseur groups wear the Medaille Militaire fourrageres, and that group has the Croix de Guerre fourrageres, so it is quite a division. I have not been through any great excitement yet--but have hopes...
...white? And their songs border on the decent sometimes, remarkable as it seems. One man sang bits from Nanon. He resembled a winter-garden chorus man about the face and timid sweet gestures--but he wore two blesse stripes, had a yellow-and-green four-ragere, several croix-de-guerres, innumerable service stripes, and embroidered on his arm the insignia that denoted he belonged to a machine gun squad. And he seemed girlish--ye gods. Also the Chasseur Captain next to me more only five wound stripes--and he looked young and happy--anticipating the next drive, I suppose...
Lieutenant R. S. Richmond '06, Sergeant J. O. Beebe '16 and Privates G. de L. Harris '18 and J. J. Frenning '16, all of the United States ambulance service in France, have been awarded the Croix de Guerre for bravery under fire. R. W. Buel '18, another member of the same unit, was decorated some months...
...death was the result of injuries received by the fall of an airplane in which he was acting as observer. He died during the night following the accident, but on that evening he and the pilot with whom he was flying were decorated with the Croix de Guerre with palm "for excellent, faithful and courageous work in numerous former flights." Their valor in operating in Seicheprey on April 20, under heavy fire and adverse weather conditions was especially mentioned. Culbert was a former editor of the CRIMSON...
Jerome Preston '19, of Lexington, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Government for conspicuous service on two occasions while under fire. Preston left college during his Sophomore year and was the first Lexington boy to enter the service in the war. He is with the American Ambulance Service and has been in France for 15 months...