The Cordova daily times., 1919-03-14
CASUALTIES0F RED TRIANGLE
 IN LATE WAR

r. uS Young Mems Christian Association carried the red triangle into the camps and trenches abroad at cost of fifty-seven lives, sacrifice nropor. tlonately one-quarter as great as that Ill the American army, according to a statement issued today by the Ma. ticnal War Work Council of the Y M. c. A. Of these fatalities thirty-nine were due to disease, and the re- mafnder to shell-fire, bombs, gas-fever, drowning and wounds. Ten of these were women, cne of whom was killed by shell fire and another in A Ger man air raid.
 There were also fifty-five non-fatal casualties. These were due princi- pally to machine gun fire, gas, shell fire and motor transport accidents. Numerous cases of slight wounds and gassings which were attended at dressing stations, but were not re- ported to headquarters, are not in- cluded.
 These casualties occurred in a force which at TO time exceeded 5000 workers, of whom it is reckoned that mere than ore half were never sent to the front, being employed in the hundreds of huts maintained through. out the training areas and the "leave areas"
 Sixty-three "Y" workers were dec. orated, while in all more tEan 152 re. ceived official recognition for dis. tiEguished service. Thirteen of these were decorated with the Croix de Guerre, while fifty received other dec. orations. Of these, three received the Distinguished Service cross; three the Order of St. Stanislaus; five the Itflian Cavaliere del Corona; thirty. eight the Italian war cross, and one t}e French decoration of the Corps dArmee. Seven were citci for the Croix de Guerre, and seven for other decorations, six commended for meri tcrious conduct, and twenty-nine re. ceived honorable mention in dis patches. Several units were cited in their entirety, those serving with the Ttird division being cited twice Mere than score more rep pcrted dec orations have not yet beer con. firmed
 | Not one of these men under 30 was fit for military duty, but the Gtations I shcw that they carried on with the \ same courage and spirit that inedti fled Americans throughout the war. These records show that t'iey went over the top with assaultirg waves, that they exposed themselves under machine gun and she'll fire to minister to the wounded, tkat they worked in defatigably as stretcheT-bearers and that they drove ambulances into the midst of battle to rescue tho wounded.
 Others were sacrificed in the less heroic but no less necessary work be- hind the lines. Among these stands out Miss Winona Martin of Rockville Center, l.. l., Y. M. c. A. secretary, who was the first American woman killed in the war. She was killed by a bomb during a German air raid, and her death made a deep impression on American minds.
 l Miss Martin had been in Paris only month, but had already done valu- able work in stimulating an interest in Paris.
 Miss Marion G. Grand ell of Alameda, California, killed by shell fire near Chalons, March 16, 1918, was another of the women sacrificed in helping the soldiers.
 The citation of the units attached to the Third division, consisting of thirty-four men and six women, by Major General Dickman, 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 Y. M. c. A. who have been attached to this division and actively carried on their work in all it's phases during the time that this division was in con- tact with the enemy.
 l While the men of the Y. M. c. A.. were with the troops in the front line, the young women of the Y. M. c. A.. were detailed with the hospitals, and the medical staff of this division bear testimony of their most efficient help during these two weeks of great Istrain.