The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-26
AMERICAN SERGEANT
TAKES 800 BOOBIES
Five Members of One Company Kill %
and Capture 40 Besides Machine
Guns-Crosses Awarded.

Among the most interesting news that
comes from the war fronts are the
stories of how the American soldiers
win distinguished war service crosses.
awarded by the commander in chief in
the name of the President From those
released for publication today the three
following are taken at random:
Sergt. Harry j. Adams, Company X,
353d infantry For extraordinary
heroism in action at Bouillonville.
France, Sept 1913, 1918. Sergeant
Adams followed a retreating German
into house in the town of Bouillonville
and ascertaining that the enemy had
entered a dugOut fired the remaining
two shots in his pistol through the door
and ordered the surrender of the oc-
eupants BY his bravery. GOODNESS and
confidence he captured. single handed.
approximately 800 prisoners including
seven officer. Home address: Miss
| Mayme Hunter, friend, 1881 Crytania
street, New Orleans. La.
Sergt. Jerome Buschman. Company G.,
9th infantry; home address: Martin j.
| BuSchman, brother, Saint Charles, Mo ;
! Private Waltzlaw Vinarski Company
! G.. 9th infantry, home address: Joseph
/ Viniarski, brother. l67 Main street,
Glendon, Penn; Private Alfred Shi-
monoski, Company q, 9th infantry,
home address: Mrs. Sophie Shimonoski.
SOL Kosciusko street, BROOKLYN, \. Y:
| Private John Rockwell, Company G. 9th
infantry. home address: Mrs. Elizabeth
Rockwell, mother, r. T. D. No. ), Rock
well Springs, New York; Private Will
liam Rockwell, Company G, 9th infan.
TRY, home address: Mrs. ElizcJe
Rockwell, mother, R. F. d. No. 5, Rock
well, New York For extraordinary
herosm in action south of scissors
France. July Is, 1918. They conspicu
ously distinguished themselves by at
lacking n party of more than 60 Ger
mans, and, in an intense and desperate
, hand-to-hand fight, succeeded in killing
90 men and capturing 40 men and fly,
machine guns.
Second Lieut.. Bvrne f. Baucom. S. G.
, observer, first aero squadron. For cX
traordinarv hcr0iSm in action in tn,
, Chateau Thierry and Saint Mihiel sa
; lients, France. Lieutenant Baucom will
f First Lieut.. William p Erwin, pilot, b,
: a long period of faithful and herO
. operations set an inspiring example o
a courage and devotion to duty TO hi
! entire squadron. Throughout the Cha
q teau Thierry actions in June and July
;. 1913, he flew under the worst weathe
conditions and successfully carried on
: his missions in the face of heavy odd
:, In the Saint Mihiel sector, Sept. l21t
: 1918, he repeated his courageous worl
He flew as low as so feet from til
ground behind the enemy's lines, h;
. RAISING German troops with machin
le guns and rifles. He twice drove o
enemy planes which were attemptin
! TO destroy an American observation ba
1 loon On Sept. 1913, he flew at e,
Ii tremely low attitudes and carried OF
y infantry contact patrols successful
l. Again on Sept. -, he attacked &c
! man battery, forced the crew to aba
'h don it, shot off his horse a German o
lie fcer who was trying to escape, dro'
20 the cannoneers to their dugouts al
We kept them there until the infantry cOu
IN come up and capture them. Home a
gs dress: Mrs. Edith Elizabeth Baucol
.e. mother, Milford, Texas.