The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-08-30
Thousand Yankees
Decorated Duri1q
Three War Years
BY JAMES c. YOUNG.
Vanyright. 1917 by The Press Pub

! fishing Cob
4 host of heroes have gone from
| America to the land OF "out there"
where the worlds fate is being
| settled. II is believed that no less than
| l,o0o of Our own have been decorated
| by the allies for bravery And the
| tide Is just heeinninG to rise.
This legion Of loo must forever
| hold a special place in the nations
| affection. They range from adven-
| 'arous Younger sons to the men who
! have laid aside high positions for the
common cause. Distinction has
+, sought them out after brave deeds
| lnodestly done. 1t would not be pos
| sible Ia tell half their story in a
dozen volumes. II Is not even POS
| sihle Ia name all of the men in this
| honor legion. But representative
! cases reflect the glory Of all.
| There was :. man who won tn"
Victoria cross. most priced of British
| emhlemS given for valor. He was
| Alexander Granger McDanagh. and
! WAS caught mp by the swirl Of war
| and went to France in the early days
as y member of the BlackWa,er bat
| TALON. Indian Exposition Field Artil-
| icry. Almost single handed. he saved
| a couple of guns from the Germans
clutch. King George pinned a V. G.
upon him.
enc of tho first Americans TO get
the French Legion of Honor cross was
Lieutenant Charles Sweens, Spokane,
W2ah He is now :: ma jor in the Unit
| ed States army. Before the war the
nla,nr had spent some time in Central
America and Africa. seeking aavcn-
ttrc. Then he Wen: to Paris and the
greatest adventure claimed him. He
entered the Foreign Legion, was made
sergeant and next lieutenant for hold
ing captured trench until reinforce
mcnts came up. IN the first battle or
Champagne we was hit just rs his
command reached the German en-
| tanglements. For four hours he lay in
n shell hole and directed operations
| nearby. They gave him the cross after
that memorable day.
The name of Lieutenant William
Thaw, originally Of Pittsburgh and
| now in the French aerial service. is
one of the most familiar that has come
out OF the great war. He has won the
French military medal. the Legion of
Honor cross. and a half dozen other
distinctions. Lieutenant Thaw is per-
IaiiS tilt most III -allifI ittill
man.
Lieutenant Elliot G. Cowdin. a New
Yorker Legion of Honor man and
holder Of the military cross. also won
his way to fame through the French
flying service. Sergeant kiffn Yates
| Rockwell of Atlanta. Ca. made some
thing of a noise in the world by de-
stroying the first enemy aeroplane that
To- Doc
from the ranks in the Foreign Legion
and then joined the aerial branch.
American flyers would seem to have
a peculiar genius for their trade Nor
man Prince, clyde Bailey, Victor Chap
man and Bert Hall are some OF those
! whom the French singled out for
| lonors. -" s;-'
After the opening day of the great
| offensive in Champagne, the men in
French firing trench saw a weird
shape staggering through the dark.
They called sharply to this wrath OF
| the night. Another minute and a
bandag ed figure hobbling on two
rifles used Hs crutchcs. toiled up to
| the trench. It was Prooie Bonneli of
our own brooklyn. He got the Mill
| tary Medal. \ French newspaper de
| u
his way from between the cl'nched
| teeth of DEATH
| American ambulance drivers have
| had a large share in the nonOrs of
| this war. Her" is a partial list of men
| awarded the military cross with spec
| ia mention: T.. j. Curley. stephen
| Halntti. Dudley Hale. Lowering Hill,
Joseph Mcllcn, J. r. Mcconnell, Durant
| Rice. Donald Walden. j. Marpuand
| Walker Jacob Wendell w. II. WoNer-
| ton. all of New York, George BusWcll,
Waiter l.ov"n, Tracy J. Putnam and
| Harold Il. Willis. Boston: Graham
| Carey, Cambridge. Mass; David B.
| Douglas. Newton. Mass; Luke Doyle
| Worcester Mass; Henry NJ. Stucklcy
| adclrha; William 7. Martin. Pitts
| burgh Frederick IIollingshead. Sparta,
| y. j.; George Rceder. New Bruins
| wick, y. j.: and Richard NJ Hall, Ann
| trhor, Mich.
Second Lieutenant Arnold Whit
| ridge is another New Yorker to win
| British honors. He has been in the ar
,ill"ry for some time, and got the mill
| tary cross for directing his hattery's
fire from a peculiarly rerilous posi-
! ton.
! The names arc almost legion in this
! vanguard Of American heroes. And
| after all names are only names. The
| men who bear them have helped to
make that prouder name of American
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