Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-25
TWO U. S. HEROES
DIE AT CRAONNE
James Wilson Galley, of New
Park, Pennsylvania, Vic,
tim of Shellburst
WAS PRINCETON .sENrop
John G. Rothermel, of Readino
Also in Ambulance Service, "
Receives Coveted War Cross

PARIS, Aug q by mail to New Yor.
The battle Of Craonne has cIaip,.a
American victims belonging to the Aus.
lean field ambulance service-Ravmans
Perley Hamilton, of Clinton. Mas, "ono
James Wilson Galley, of New Park .a D..
Both had seen less than months ssr,,a.
1t was In the heat of battle, when ~.
Crown Princes troops were Iaunch,no
desperate counter-attacks in their effort. -
win back the important Chemin -des-Dam..
that both Americans lost their lives '''
Galley, only twenty-one years old and
senior of Princeton University. reca,,,.s
glowing mention in army orders. It run..
James Wilson Galley, American sanitsr,
section No. 66, was evacuating six seriou,i.
wounded soldiers during the night, when :.
was held up In village owing to the co,.
lapse of a house and to she'll craters WI
Although the road was swept by sbe,,.
ana gas was swirling around, he ran to
neighboring post and brought back ano,h..
vehicle into which the wounded were tran..
ferred and afterward taken to the rear"
The official description of how Gailev ma.
his death, four days after this exploit. was.
killed by shell which fell on his am.
bulance while 1t was filled with woundedn
Hamilton was killed in the same nesh-
borhood. He was taking up wounded shor..
ly after dawn at a frst-aid station ri,h,
behind the trenches when a German sSs,i
fell plumb in the midst OF the group ~ sr,'
ferers and relief workers. Hamilton was
killed on the spot. His citation was.
Raymond Perley Hamilton, dr,v.,
American volunteer, American sanitary ssc'
ton No. Sc: A very good driver, devoted
and courageous. killed in the accompiah.
ment of his duty while collecting wo,indsd
at the ambulance post of ", on ,JuIv 20
1917, at 5 o'clock in the morning"
The funeral OF the two volunteers took
place at the front and was attended with fuli
military honors. General Niessel pinning ths
war cross on the two collins before thsv
were lowered to the earth.
The Craonne battle Is giving Arner,c,n
ambulance boys plenty Of opportunities "A
distinguish themselves which they are not
slow to seize. After the funeral ceremony
for Galley and Hamilton, General NiesseI
conferred the war cross upon the section
commander, William Gorham Rise, of All.
bany, N. Y, Harvard University man. ana
three other members of section Sc: Dur.
bin W. Rowland, Toledo. o. (Harvard).
John S. Woodbridge, Shanghai, China
Princeton), and John G. Rothermel Read.
Ing Pa. (Princeton). All four men hays
been in the thick of fearful fighting Their
automobiles have had to carry the wounded
away through shell hurricanes sweeping
the lines of communication.
Three other Americans belonging to am.
bulance section No. 2, who have who have
received the war cross lately are John W.
Ames. of Cambridge. Mass. (Harvard), son
Of Prof. John W. Ames, of the Harvard
Law School; Raymond whitney of Bed.
ford, Ind. (Randolph- Macon College), and
Edward Diemer, of New York. All these
men have also been working in the deadly
Craonne region.