Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-21
CORPORAL JOSEPH ALLEN
TO Receive WAR MEDAL
Presentation Of Frcroh Croix d.
Guerre Will BE Made This
Afternoon.
CEREMONY AT STATE CAPITOL
Decoration Will BE Pinned on High
land Park Soldier in Office Of
Governor Davis-NNas With Rich
niond Grays.

Corporal Joseph Z. Allen, Company
Is. one Hundred and Sixteenth lnfan-
try. whose homo is in Highland Park
VIII be presented with tho French
Croix de Guerre with star for con-
spicuous Sallantry in action this af-
ternoon at 1880 in the office of the
Governor of Virginia in the Capitol
Inc medal and citation were received
Yesterday by the district recruiting
offices. $50 East Broad Street.
Major Williams a. Stack, of the Ono
hundred and Sixteenth Regiment. who
Is now on duty with the local recruit
ing office and who was the command
ing officer of Company ut the time
VIII present the medal 10 Corporal
Allen Others who will be present at
the presentation are Governor West
moreland Davis. General 10 Lane stern,
AdJutant -Genearl of Virginia; Mayor
RHiim Rms LG,IIitenantt;;colonel Harry L.
Maie,r r fohm M officer for this State;
GruitinS. officer; Captain Dunn. Ma Tor
r. r. Mott, marine, recruiting officer:
cruiting officer, and Major Charles Fl
carson, publicity officer for this State.
Order Signed by Petain.
The order accompanying the medal
General Headquarters of the French
Armies of the East:
With the appreciation Of the com
peditionary forces in France. Marshal
OF France, communicating chief of the
armies OF the East cites in the order
Corporal, Company b. One hundred and
Sixteenth Infantry Regiment, with tho
assistance of four soldiers he attacked
and captured eight machine guns and
their sAt g S;ensrri to,aou,r, 49,, ..
1919. - 90
"pETAIN
"comamander in chief Of the French
Corporal Alien was born in Rich
mond, March ., 1895. He volunteered
with the Richmond Grays and left Rich
training a, Camp Mcclellan left the
United States May IA, 1918. with the
Twenty aS IN ninth Division he participat-
tor "Haut" Alsace and in the Meusc
Argonne offensive He was wounded
o s. sGe ' IS. i,f IS Grand Mo" Tasne
:, In charge of four privates. Corporal
Allen; on October s., 1915. at the Battle
machine guns and their gunners or
the five men engaged In this work
two Of them have received the d. S. c.
French honors.
Hns Won AIso ID. S. C.
About noon, the sth OF October.
1919, says MAYOR william y. stock,
lens battalion at the time. our as
saulting wave was being held up. by
holes and pill boxes" held by Hun
crews who could not be
seen. Waiting, and watching for a
little smoke which some times could
be seen on a cloudy day such as this
was. Corporal Allen selected four pri-
Yates from b company TO aid him and
went to destroy this resistance. Ar
irving closer to the Huns. Corporal AL
len found great deal more than he
expected TO find. but by SO placing his
men and with the aid or that ever
present determination of the American
soldier to do or die he SURPRISED and
their crews consisting of fiftysix pris-
oners. The success of this great work
is most wholly attributable TO good
mark smanship. for every shot fired ny
any. of this group of men brought down
q Hun. No shots were fired unless Il
good target presented itself"
Corporal Allen himself has already
the Distinguished Service
Cross from this government.