Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-02

squadron of Gefnffff lubes single
handed. as the result Of Which his ma
chine was wrechfE hntl fell into the
sea-.
Noyes was among the first to enlist
twith the Lafayette Escadrille and upon
the entry of the United States into
the war he was placed In command Of
the Twelfth Aero Squadron.
For voluntarily driving his ambulance
over road raked by heavy fire on Oc-
tober In the vicinity of Sommc-Py
France, Private Townsend was awarded
the Distinguished Service Cross.
Private Townsend drove night and
day from October TO October O. bring
ing wounded from an advanced dressing
station near the lines TO a base hospital
during one of the most terrific engage
ments OF the war. His motor was struck
several times. but he escaped without
injury.
Townsend Volunteers
When on October the heavily worked
litter carriers found il impossible 70 re-
move a group of seriously wounded men
from a point near the lines. Townsend
volunteered to bring them to the rear,
and drove to the advanced station under
a gruelling fire from enemy machine
guns and artillery.
When the United States entered the
war he abandoned his studies at the
University Of Pennsylvania, where he
was a freshman in the engineering de-
partment and Joined an ambulance
unit He trained at Allentown and
Tobyhanna, leaving for France on
Christmas ray, 1917. He is twenty
years old
Young Townsend attended the Eps-
copal Academy and graduated from
Lswrenceville with highest honors in
the class of 1916. At the University ot
Pennsylvania he was a member Of the I.
Delta Psi fraternity
He has four brothers in the seryi ice
Captain Charles 5, Townsend, LIeuten- F.
ant Roger r Townsend J. " Town
send. Jr, and stockton Townsend.
Private Townsend Is member of the
554th Sanitary Service unit, nearly all f.
the motors IN which, he says. hay" been
struck one or more times by encur fire
A Haddonfeld y r.. soldier-Corpo-al
John n, Moore-has also won a eta .
tion for bravery His hcroisu is de-
scrlbed hy the War Department ae fol-
lows:
corporal John y. Moore. sanitary
Service Unit 55i. For extraordinary
heroism in action near Sommc- Py. F
France, October 30, 1918 During this
period Private Moore evacuated the
wounded in an advance pos. under shell
fire and sniper FIRE, ON the nights ~ Oc-
tober and he drove an ambulance
10 points beyond the advanced posts To
carry in the wounded under intense
shell and machine gun fire. He also as
sisted litter bearers in exposed positions
in carrying the wounded from the lines
TO the dressing station"
Corporal Moore completed his sopho-
more year at the University OF Penn
sylvania and volunteered in the Ambu-
lance Corps on May Is, 1917, the day
after his nineteenth birthday He re-
ceved his training az Camp Crane, near
Allentown, Pa IN the following No.
vember his unit, together with other
units, went on a hike 10 robyhanna> Pa
where they remained until the following
Christmas. They proceeded to Hoboken
on December 90. Corporal MooroS rank
at that time being that OF orderly The
unit embarked for overseas duty a,
Hoboken and arrived at Brest on Jan
uary ~, 1918 After a Journey 10 Paris.
the unit proceeded 70 the battlefield AT
Belfort. |