Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-19
Gratitude Medal
For Many Americans
correspondence Associated Prcss.l

| Correspondence Associated Prcss.l
Paris, April 3,-The official Journal
prints the first list of names of those
, whom the new. decoration The Medal
OF French Gratitude" has been con-
f,rr d. Miss Erma =. Lansing and
lss katherine 4, Lansiug, sisters OF
,hr American secretary OF state, are
mentioned among those RECEIVING the
bronze medal. because ~ the courage
displayed by the two wnile conducting
canteen work sometimes under bonn
bardment, at Epernay.
Recipients If the silvcr-gilt medal
of first class number twenty Ave, anu
the first names are: KING of Spain.
queen Of Great Britain and Ireland,
Queen Alexandra, Prince Arthur OF
Connaught. Princess Christian ana
Princess Louise. whose qualifications
are not mentioned. The others include
Madame Cosmc de la Torriente and
Madame Doltz. both of Havana, identi-
fled with sending Cuban products to
the French Red Cross.
Among the l0S recipients OF the sill
yer medal Of the second class are the
following Americans
DR.. Frank Cook Abbott, for his WORK
ut the vendume hospital.
Mrs. Gertrude Ellen Austin, founder
and director of a committee Tor sur
gical bandages, a worker daily since
September, 1915.
Mrs. Harriet Bard Squires. nurse at
Montmarail hospital.
Mrs. Charles Carroll, Of Carrollton'
10 o. Aats nf Amer
ican hospital ut Neuilly.
Henry Copely Green. OF Rowie!'
Mass. American Red Cross delegate al
Noyon, who distinguished himself our
ing the German offensive In May lsis'
Miss Ethel Mary Croker, OF "a"
Francisco, who rebuilt at her own eN-
pense the village of Vitrimont, super
, intending the work herself in close
proximity to the front.
William Henry Crocker. Of San Fran
cisco, who devoted himself to French
works of charity and other organiza-
lions turnout the war and who was as
sociated with the reconstruction or
yitrimont, and Mrs. Crocker, who
joined in all kinds of charitable work
for the allies and especially for France
and continued her efforts thruout the
war besides sending her children to
can ambulance.
William Nelson Cromwell, of New
York City, who displayed interest in
the re-education Of MANNED soldiers.
founded and maintained the Lelegard
workshop at Saint Cloud and the
Franco American workshop in the
Grand Palais, and at the same time
donated to the society for the blind,
the canteens and the Red Cross.
Miss Norman Derr. voluntary nurse.
VINO served with devotion in many
field hospitals. often under shell fire.
Mrs. Alice Dulany- Hunter, of Wash
ington, D. c., who displayed efficiency
in directing American hospital No.
147b at Nice, where French officers
and soldiers were treated gratuitously.
Miss Henrietta B. Ely, OF Phila-
delphia, who managed the American
canteen at Epernay and other Ameri-
can institutions there.
Madame Estei,c Field who thru her
devotion to the work of caring for the
children of the frontier districts i'm
paired her health.
DR.. Edmond Louis Gros, of Pitts
burgh and Paris, one of the founders,
and administrat Of the American
ambulance of Paris, serving as doctor
there from September. 1914, to April,
1916. and afterward taking charge OF
the personnel and the transportation
of the wounded.
Robert Mason Hardie, representing
the Canadian Red Cross in Paris, who
became seriouly i'll while directing the
distribution service Of that institution