Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...from the artillery officer in charge of the covering fire during the engagement on the French from in which Allen Shortt '17 was reported to have been captured, he has been awarded the military cross for capturing a German machine gun. Shortt, who was attached to the machine gun section of the 59th Canadian battalion was also mentioned in several official dispatches for singular bravery in leading his platform across the so-called "No-Man-Land" into the German French where he captured practically single-handed, the enemy...
Word has been received that David William Meadowcroft '01 was wounded in France while in the service of the American Ambulance Field Service. Section 8 of this service in which he served are mentioned in the army orders, and Meadowcroft's bravery especially commended. The orders were as follows...
...This section, which has since been attached to the Sixteenth Division, has rendered a great service in transporting wounded under difficult and often dangerous circumstances. On December 29, 1916, during a bombardment, the drivers showed conspicuous coolness and absolute devotion in succoring the wounded and conveying them to ambulances. Driver William Meadowcroft has given many proofs of calmness and coolness since the arrival of the division, often under perilous circumstances. He was wounded on December 29, during the bombardment...
...ambulance driver more than a year ago, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre for distinguished service with his Corps during recent fighting in France. After a few months Drake was raised to the position of second commander of his rewarded action he was in command of the fifth section of the S. S. A., to which position he has been promoted during the early part of December...
...section will be sent at once to some sector on the western front and will continue together as one unit till next September, when the six-months' term of enlistment expires. The names of those definitely accepted follow...