Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-08

Medal, forty-three the Royal Red Cross. first
class, and one hundred and forty-nine the Royal
Red Cross, second class.
Sanada built $500 arplanes for the royal air
force and was building bombing planes for the
United States when the armistice was signed
About l3oOO men We're enlisted iii the royal air
force from Canada and three Canadian air fight
ers won the Victoria Cross. The best known Of
the trio is Lieut. Col. William A. Bishop of To
ronto, who was cayalryman in the Mssssauga
Horse and went overseas with the horses, but got
transferred to the flying corps Bishop is off
cally credited with seventy-two and unoffcially
credited with one hundred and ten enemy air.
planes and is called the worlds greatest living
see. King George sent for him and awarded him
the Victoria Cross, the Distinguished Service Order
and the Military Cross.
Next in reputation is Mai. W. G, Barker, " G.,
d. S. O., NJ c., royal air force fighter from
Manitoba. He was given the Victoria Cross, Dis
tinguished Service Order, with bar, and the Mill
t.ry Cross. with two bars. His grand total is
s.ry enemy machines.
According to Colonel Bishop, the Quickest air
fssai of the war was that of Lieut.. Alan Arnett
Mcleod, " G., royal air force pilot from Stone
wall, Manitoba. This eighteen ear-old boy, at
sael.ed by eight enemy airplanes, shot down three
Of hem. He was wounded five times, and then his
machine caught fire. Climbing out on the left bot
com plane he controlled his falling airplane from
che side of the fuselage, landed in No Mans
Sand, rescued his wounded observer from the
blazing aircraft and was again wounded by an
enemy bomb Shortly after his return to Canada
Mcleod died of pneumonia in Winnipeg
The first Canadian to win the v. G. was a heroic
surgeon. Capt Francis A. 9. Scrmger, Of the
Canadian army medical service.
Color Sergeant Frederick w. Hall, Eighth bat
TALON. heard call for help in No Mans Land
In the face of very heavy enflade fire Hall made
two attempts at rescue. AS he lifting the
wounded man Hall was wounded mortally by bull
let through the head. He paid for the coveted " c.
with his life. So did Lance Corporal Frederick
Fisher, Thirteenth battalion.
At Gvenchy, June 49, 1915, Lieut.. Frederick
". Campbell, First Canadian battalion, went over
the top with two machine guns, arrived at the
German fist line with one gun and maintained
his position there under very heavy fire, though
every man in his detachment had been killed or
wounded. Later he stopped an enemy attack by
advancing his gun still farther and firing 1000
rounds from an exposed position. He was wound
cd subsequently and died. the V. G. was post
humously awarded him.
Private leo Clarke. " c., Twenty-seventh bat
TALON. Private John Chapman Kerr, V. e.. Sixty
eth battalion; Capt. Thain w MacDowel v. Y.
md H. s. c., Thirty-eighth battalion; Lieut. Fred
ariel; NJ. W. Harvey, v. c., Thirteenth battalion
MI these men performed prodigies OF valor in Kill
az foes capturing prisoners, enemy trenches and
,,ositjnns and machine guns They earned their
Victoria Crosses.
Serst Ellis W. Sifton, v. c., charged a machine
pnn alone, killing all the crew and stopped
y ter.attacl, until reinforced; he was killed So
x,as Private William j. Milne " C,S Forty sixth