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Several University men in the 26th Division have been decorated for bravery on the field of battle. Among these are three men who won the Distinguished Service Cross: Captain Cornelius Beard '09, Co. A, 101 Engineers; Capt. Conrad Wesselhoeft M.D. '17, Medical Corps, 104th Infantry; and Corporal William J. Brown '14, Co. C, 101st Signal Corps. The last two named, together with Major H. W. Estey, D.D.M. '97, 101st Engineers, were also awarded the Croix de Guerre...
...more former members of the University and one former cadet in the University regiment who was not regularly enrolled as a student have been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism in action. The two graduates are First Lieutenant Robinson Murray '12 and Captain Conrad Wesselhoeft '11, both of Cambridge. Lieutenant Kari C. Payne of Belmont, the third upon whom the honor was conferred, although a student of M. I. T., owes his early training to the University regiment which he joined in the spring...
...Captain Wesselhoeft, in action near Verdun in November, 1918, went forward under heavy machine gun fire, to the aid of a wounded soldier. The fire was so heavy that the two were compelled to remain in the shell hole until nightfall, when the wounded man was carried back to safety...
...James Percy Baumberger, Donald Forsha Jones, Walter Wesselhoeft Tunner...
...Barron, Jr., and Miss O. Ames, L. S. Chanler, Jr., and Miss Thatcher, J. K. Hodges and Miss E. Ames, F. P. Motley and Miss Burr, S. L. Parsons, Jr., and Miss Gaston, L. Saltonstall (chairman) and Miss Wesselhoeft...