Evening star., 1918-06-30
GEORGETOWN MAN
wins /. WAR HONORS
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Karl KindIeberger Driving an
xx Ambulance on the
W, French Front.

American ambulance drivers, attach
ed to a section of the French army.
Carried wounded poilus from the front
lines to field hospitals under a con-
tinuous rain of fire. during the recent
German bombardment of French po-
sitions at the Marine. preparatory to
the last great drive on this front.
This Information is conveyed In
letter received by Hugh ]. Fegan,
secretary of the law school Of George
town University, from Karl k1ndie-
berger, a Washington man. who grad
uaied from the law school in 1914, and
who went over last year as an ambu-
lance driver in the American expedi-
tionary forces.
:" 80 Decorated for Bravery.
aKindleberger was decorated for
bravery, along with the other mem
bers of his section, for carrying
wounded men under fire when the
German push was at its height.
,,Kindleberger writes that the am
bulance men drive at night without
Lights for fear of being detected by
the enemy and frequently new drivers
go lar from tHc Todu III dhloihpk
to locate field stations in the rear
while transporting wounded soldiers
from the front lines.
The Georgetown graduates letter
10, in part, as follows:
=" Went to the Front.
I'VE arrived in the most important
sector of the Germans first push and
I'thad the honor of being at the wheel
of one of the four cars that went
right up to the front posts the night
the French stopped the Germans.
Shells were flying everywhere and the
kroar of the French guns was terrible.
slept none that night and was always
ofs the alert because no one knew
when we would have to go back.
1.-The fighting was all in the open
and it was a great sight to see an ac-
tual battle and be even small part
Of it.
and six German aviators brought down
IN the course of a few hours. On
April II and 1S the Germans threw
gas at US and we carried away victims
for some forty or fifty hours. l and
eight others were gassed by working
in 1t. We did work in three different
hospitals in the interior. l have just
returned to my section and SO have all
the others, except one, who was burned
badly.
1.-The night of the gas we had six
cars going en- panne, and it was so
dark that one of the boys drove right
through demolished house before he
knew he was off the road. For this
Werk our whole section was cited and
decorated before the general of this
| division on Sunday, May IL. in the
public square of this little town.
1--WE all have had many narrow es-
capes and have experienced all the hor-
rofs of war.
n Under Continuous Fire.
.'we have all been in bombarded
towns and are now continuously
under heavy fire.
Tin the hospital where I was taken
for Treatment for the gas I met one
Georgetown man, class of 1917, in the
law school. / also saw my cousin,
w. B. Mccarthy, who came eighty
miles to see me there. l just want to
say that wherever one is you will
flnd a Georgetown man over here, and
hA usually comes through with flying
colors, too.
@~This sector is now comparatively
Quiet, but sometimes the whole works
open up and things are very lively
for few days. The German avions
come over every night and drop little
presents on US. and the other night
four landed right on the outside of
our little town. We get our usual
amount of shells thrown at US during
when we are all ordered to go back
into the caves.
John z. Waters, who took his
freshman year at Georgetown Law
me-"