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...Distinguished Service Cross was awarded posthumously to Lieutenant Gardner for "extraordinary heroism in action in the Argonne Forest, October 3, 1918." While leading his company up a steep slope in the face of machine gun fire, he displayed the highest courage, and was killed before he saw his objective fulfilled...
Captain Hamilton Coolidge '19, of Boston has been posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by General Pershing for heroism in action while serving with the 94th Aero Squadron near Grandpre, France on October...
Captain William John Bingham '16, of Methuen, has been awarded the French War Cross for heroism at the battlefront in the closing days of the war and has received the personal thanks of the general of his division for the part he took in the October fighting. Captain Bingham was very prominent in College affairs, being president of the Phillips Brooks House and the Exeter Club, First Marshal of his class, leader of the Glee Club, captain of the 1916 track team, and a member of the Nominating and Athletic Committees...
...latest lists of government citations the Distinguished Service Cross is awarded to First Lieutenant sumner Sewall '02, of Bath, Me., one of the seven University "Aces." The citation reads--"for repeated acts of extraordinary heroism in action near Menilla Tour, France, June 3, 1918, and near Landres, St. Georges, France, October...
Recent citations of the American and French Armies contain the names of three University men. Captain John Mitchell '18, of the 95th Aero Squadron is cited, posthumously, by the U. S. Department for "extraordinary heroism in action." He was killed during an aerial combat against superior numbers, after having downed an enemy biplane, near Beaumont...