Word: monastir
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recently returned from the Balkans. Those who have been decorated are William Emersen '95, H. B. Palmer '10, both of New York, N. Y., and J. M. Walker '09, of Newburyport. According to dispatches, the medals were awarded for courageous action in removing wounded men in the region of Monastir, between December, 1916, and October, 1917. The work of these men was particularly noteworthy during the period of heavy bombardment between March and August of last year...
...citations mention gallant work performed by the men named in picking up and saving wounded men around Monastir under the heaviest of shelling. Hill's work at Hartmanswella-Kopf and Verdun also is mentioned...