The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-09
CASUALTIES AMONG I'M. GA. SHOW PART TAKEN IN THE WAR
Fifty-Seven Lost Lives and Z Fifty-Five Nonfatal Casu- ! alties Listed Among
 the Forces
: By A,soeIated Press

By Associated Press New York March S.-The Young Men $ Christian association carried the Red angle into the camps and trenches abroad at a cost of 57 lives, sacrifice propor- t.onately one-quarter as great as that Tn the American army, according to a, state- ment issued today by the national war work council of the Young Mems Chris tian association. Of these fatalities Ss were due to disease, and the remainder to shell fire, bombs, gas fever, drowning and wounds. Ten of these were women, one of whom was killed by shell fire and another in German air raid.
 There were also 55 nonfatal casualties. These were due principally to machine gun fire, gas, shell fire and motor trans port accidents. Numerous cases of slight wounds and gassings which were at tended at dressing stations, but were not reported to headquarters are not in- cluded.
 These casualties occurred in a force which at no time exceeded 5000 workers, of whom it is reckoned that more than one- half were never sent to the front, being employed in the hundreds of huts maintained throughout the training areas and the leave areas"
 Sixty-three "Y' workers were decor
  official recognition for distinguished service. Thirteen of these were decorated with the croix de guerre, while 50 re- ceived other decorations. Of these three received the distinguished service cross; three the Order of St. Stanislaus; five the Italian Cavaliere del Corona; B the Italian war cross, and one the Frencn decoration of the croix d'armee. seven were cited for the croix de guerre, and
  mended for meritorious conduct, and Z9 received honorable mention in dispatches. Several units were cited inetheir entirety, those serving with the Third division being cited twice. More than a score more reported decorations have not yet been confirmed.
 Not one of these men under 90 was fit for military duty but the citations snow that they carried on with the same cour- age and spirit that identified Americans throughout the war. These records show that they went over the top with the as- saulting waves, that they exposed them selves under machine gun and sheh fire to minister to the wounded, that they worked indefatigably as stretcher- bearers and that they drove ambulances into the midst of battle to rescue the wounded.
 Others were sacrificed in the less he- roic but no less necessary work behind the lines Among those stands out, MISS Winona Martin of Rockville Center, l.. l., a Young Mems Christian association secretary, who was the fir American < woman killed in the war. She was killed by bomb during German air raid, and her death made deep impress sion on American minds.
 Miss Martin had been in Paris only q month, but had already done valuable work in stimulating an interest among the soldiers in the Young Mems Chris tian association in Paris
 Miss Marion G. Crandell of Alameda, Cal. killed by shell fire near Chalons, March 26, 1918, was another woman sac rificed in helning the soldiers
 The citation or he units attached to the Third division, consisting of 34 men and six women, by Major General Dick man. reads in part
 "The commanding general desires to make of record in the general orders of this division his appreciation of the part taken by the members of the Young Mems Christian association. who have been attached to this division and ac- lively carried on their work in all it's phases during the time that this division was in contact with the enemy.
 While the men of the Young Men Christian association were with the troops in the front line, the young wom- en of the Young Mems Christian asso- citation were detailed with the hospitals and the medical staff of this division bears testimony of their most efficient help during, these two weeks Of great strain.