The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-04-03
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J. THE TERRIBLE
Lieut.. Clarence Shannon in
Unit Cited for Valor By
General Petain.
TOOK PART IN BIG
FIGHT AT JUVINGY
Is Now Generals Aid and Lives
In One of Bertha Krupp's
|sfr% Hunting Lodges.

From now on, henceforth and for
ever, Clarence Shannon, son OF Mr.
and Mrs. c. N. Shannon of Bemidji
and who was at one time associated
with The Pioneer, will be known as
"Shan the Terrible"
When he left Minneapolis FOL
Franc little more than year ago
says the Minneapolis Tribune, he was
complexion girl might envy and
ready smile that broke into gurgle
or kchortle on the least provocation
--Clarence A. Shannon, first lieu.-
tenant of cavalry, Sixty-fourth in.
fantry brigade.
\ Everyone Called Him Shan"
+ At the University of Minnesota,
where he was student several years
and in The Minneapolis Tribune Of
fice where he was reporter, and In
Bemidji and Faribault where he also
Is well known, everyone called him
Shan" which showed they liked
him.; but now he has become more
than that, far more than that. He
ID '.Shan the Terrible"
No less person that Petain, mar
shal OF France, commander-in-chief
of the French armies of the east, has
said so.
This is how it came about, ~,
Marshal Petain. according to re-
port lust received, here, on March 4
cited the, .sixty-rourth brigade for
distinguished vaior In these words:
= Magnificent brigade to which the
Frehch soldiers fighting by its side
have rendered the most beautiful
homage in callingit the brigade def
Terribles.' Composed Of the 127th
and l28th machine gun company, II
took in brilliant and irresistible at
tack, at the village Of Juigny, August
80, 1918, and pursued it5 advance
August 81 and September /; dominat-
ing the enemy constantly, despite
heavy losses, sustaining without
faltering the most violent enemy
counter attacks, fighting for three
days without stopping, without rest
and almost without food"
Shannon in That Fight.
Marshal Petain said that, gave Of
fetal recognition to the title. "Bri-
gade of: Terrible Ones" which its ad-
miring French allies had given the
Sixty-fourth because of that three
days fight. And Lieutenant Shan.
non was in that fight.
The citation, it is understood, does
not carry the right to decorate any
individuals other than the brigade
commanders. but it does give the
right to decorate all regimental
colors with the croix de guerre with
palm.
Originally the Sixty-fourth was
made up mostly of Wisconsin troops
and the Sixty-third brigade, which
with 1t formed the Thirty second di.
vision Of Michigan troops. Hundreds
OF requirements receive, by both bri'
gades just before and during the Ju-
vigny fight came from Minnesota
Iowa, Montana and other middle ives,
states The Sixty-third also was
cited.
Lieutenant Shannon was commits,
stoned a second lieutenant of cavalry
at the close of the first officers train.
ing camp at Fort Smelling, and was
assigned to duty at Fort d. r. Rus.
sci, Wyoming.
Shannon Made Aide-de Camp.
After the Juvigny affair, Lieuten.
ant Shannon was made an aide-de-
camp to Brig. Gen. E. B. Winans
commander of the Sixty-fourth bri-
gade, went through the Argonne and
campaigns and wal
with the front line troops on the
march into Germany. The brigade
headquarters is at Sayneck, Germany
'in one Of Bertha Krupp's hunting
lodges east Of the Rhine, near Cob.
lenz."