The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-05
Major-Gen John F. Organ. who commands the Twenty
seventh (New York; Division.

1T was Justice. So heavy were the
losses in breaking the Hlndenburg line
that the Australians Third and Fourth
Divisions coming through them to go
on and exploit their success according
to plan, took over the sector; yet four
days slater the Twenty seventh and
Thirtieth Divisions were At again to go
through the Australians and take over
their sector. And thereafter the re-
duced corps continued from triumph to
triumph-Jeancourt, Primont. Mont
brehain. Escaufort, Bussigny, st.
Souplet, Naux Andigny, Mezinghien
and up to the high ground command
ing Catillon and the Sambre Canal.
I'VE never get maud.in about gall
lantry," said Gen. Organ. Many
recommendations made by company
battalion and reginental commanders
were disapproved and not forwarded
on the principle that that Is What We
came for-to he gallant" Plain gal
lantry in the Twenty is sim
ply the performance Of duty. Only
when the gl!iantry was exceptional
yond what good healthy fighting mar
should be expected to do was the
act considered as subject of recon-
mendation FOR a medal
Put that in your ,l.pe and smoke It.
In fact quite as many British as
| American distinctions. think, hav.
/ come through Cup TO the present. to
the boys Of the Twenty-seventh
/ Which also is only justice. They are
! the DISTINGUISHED Service Order. al,
ready mentioned. the British Military
Medal, the British Military Cross and
DISTINGUISHED Conduct Medal. OF our
own Government I'have already
. counted fifty or more Distinguished
Service Crosses, and there 10 no indi'
/ cation how many more have gone up
From the British the last number
( helrd of was eighty. nor can theil
( final total be in any way estimated a,
the present.
Il could read you the cold English
describing acts that sound almost like
fairy tales. Of men who were very
gallant and therefore simply performed
their duty, and were wounded and en-,
/ titled TO be evacuated but refused an(
and went on" said Gen. ORyan
They set a brilliant example of til,
spirit of fight and determination by
going on while wounded, capturins
prisoners in several cases have il
mind, or bomhins a dugout Will,
wounded, and then being woundot
again There are several cases OF mel
being hit three times before they qui
and were evacuated"
The True Won't quit" Tyne.
Il is the won, quit type. To i
belong equally all those LieutenInts
non commissioned ufiiceIs and simpl,
soldiers, who, finding their superior
put out of action, gathered the unit
together and led them on.
There aro a hundred ways to b,
supcrgallant. There is the outpos
heroism OF the little patrol. There il
messenger superbravery which get
through gassed valley under muir
derous fire and. being dismounted
continues on foot, rounding up strag
glcrS in the bargain. There is Graz,
and intrepid attacking.
And finally there is the freak inspi
ration of exceptional opportunity, sucl
as H,sCuing u tank in the open shcl
swept field. II happened ten times
CIR quitting trench. driving into
smoke screen and bringing back thirt,
Germans single handed. or tn
wounded private who perceives fort,
German prisoners shooting thei
guards, already weakened by Germa,
anipcrs, and who grabs up a Levi
gun, turns it on them and puts tn
whole enemy bunch out OF action"
] can tell you his name: Privat
Harold A, Shipman, Company Il of tn
10Sth Infantry.
The smoke screen hero is Privat
Wasyl kolonczky, Company c. of tn
1U7th. Buffalo boy and East Side, Ney
York.
one day (not so far off, don't | tel
you?) there Will he a grand parade il
New York, 1t will he that OF a uniqu
Army Corps, the Amerlcan Secon
Corps as OF September October, 1915
composed of the infantry Of the Twen
tT-scVenth (New York Nations
Guard Division and the Thirtietl
Tennessee. North and South Carolina
Division. the only American troops 81
the British front-brothers in arm
against the Hindenburg line compan
ions in glory