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...report just received from the American Ambulance Field Service headquarters in Paris, announces additional awards of the Croix de Guerre to Americans. From the beginning of the war up to September 15, 1916, 39 Americans connected with this service have received the Croix de Guerre. Of these, the following twelve are graduates or undergraduates of the University: A. G. Carey '13, L. C. Doyle '04, S. Galatti '10, H. D. Hale '14, L. Hill '10, P. C. Lewis '17, W. Lovell '07, J. B. Mellen '17, W. Pierce '07, T. J. Putnam '15, H. M. Suckley...
...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...