The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-11-14

ana Two machine guns, and Two day
later, at night, near Sergy, at grea
risk of his own life, he bravely wen
out in front of German sniper AM
brought back into the line a wounde'
corporal of his platoon.
The story of the exploits that VOL
the D. S. C. for Corporal Sidney E
Manning, Infantry, who displayed ex
traordinary heroism in action neal
Croix Rouge farm, northeast of Cha
teau-Thierry, on the 9th of July
furnishes another case in point:
Corporal Manning was in charge OF
an automatic rifle squad. One gunner
was killed, and one carrier and him.
self wounded by shell-fire Although
wounded, he took the rifle and am
munition and continued the advance
On reaching the top of the hill he was
again wounded by machine gun fire:
he still advanced with his platoon. On
reaching the bottom of the hill, his
platoon was forced to withdraw, be-
ing thanked on both sides. He re-
manned at the bottom of the hill alone
and covered the withdrawal, keeping
the enemy from closing in on his pla-
toon. He then rejoined his platoon,
having received nine wounds
Then there is Corporal Rufus Wise
man, infantry, in charge of detail
for carrying ammunition to machine
gun section northeast of Chateau
Thierry, from the 10Th of July to
the second of August. Corporal Wise
man, his duties performed, had been
given permission to withdraw to the
rear. Instead, he remained with his
detail for four days on the firing line
under heavy enemy bombardment
and machine gun fire, assisting the
machine gun crew. During those four
days he was suffering from the effects
of gas, but refused to be evacuated.
Northeast of Chateau-Thierry, on
the 29th of July, an attacking bat
talon sent out call for ammunition.
In response, Supply Sergeant Byron
W. Peyton, Infantry, drove combat
wagon in broad daylight into the front
line positions near Fere-en- Tardenois
and, says the citation accompanying
the award of the Cross to him, ode
livered the ammunition required by
his comrades on the front" Again, it |
was service of others, blindness to risk |
when he might bring them that which |
they needed, that made the deed what
it was.
Among the posthumous awards of I
The Cross awards to. men who gall
antly made the attempt to succor
others in distress and who failed only
With the spending of their lives, the
same principle stands out. 1t is writ
EN- after the name of Private Charles
7. Kane, DISC, and after that of Pri-
rate John Turano, D. S. c., both of
he infantry:
Attempting to bring his captain,
o fire, to shelter near Vaux, l July,
918, he was himself killed, thereby
acrificing his life in an effort to res
ue his commanding officer.
Aside from the underlying principle
f service to others, the obliviousness
o danger when the lives of comrades ,
an be saved by running the great risk
mother thing stands out amidst the =
ames on the D. S. C. award lists. 1t /.
J that not single race that goes in ,
, the great melting pot of races >
hitch we call America is unrepresent- '
among the gallant and self-sacri-
on the virtue of unselfsh :
cling, and not single race has a
ravery. !
There are Luis and Grabinskis,
alfmanns and Kochenspargers, Tho :
ases and Simpsons, Sullivans and ;.
lartins, Camerons and McKennas on ;
lie roll of honor, all equal in glory, +
walls of one another only in the T
mount of service they can render to =
leir fighting mates, regardless of &
ON what stock those mates may have .
'rung. Men of many nationalities, 9
ey know only the one flag now, the 9
ag that they, by their sacrifice and :,
lring, have helped to advance on the :,
ye-old battlefields of the Old World, :,
'inging the message of hope and q
eer from the New. !,
The story that the citations tell is :,
at the valor. of the fathers is not :.
ad; that the spirit of service of 40
crifice, of absolute unsefishness in =,
e face of death lives in and moves =,
ID permeates the America of today ~
war.
-