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Awards Received

  • Silver Star

    Service:

    United States Army

    Rank:

    Private First Class

    Batallion:

    8th Machine-Gun Battalion

    Division:

    3d Division, American Expeditionary Forces

    Action Date:

    July 15, 1918

    Headquarters, 3d Division, A.E.F., Citation Orders No. 22 (July 8, 1919)

    By direction of the President, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved July 9, 1918 (Bul. No. 43, W.D., 1918), Sergeant First Class Austin T. Gale, Private First Class Boselans A. Abromowicz, Private First Class John J. O’Shea, Private First Class Thomas C. Brown, and Private Thomas M. Holt, United States Army, are cited by the Commanding General, 3d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, and a silver star may be placed upon the ribbon of the World War I Victory Medals awarded them. These members of the Medical Detachment, 8th Machine Gun Battalion, 3d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, and have given evidence of possessing courage and have shown the highest type of devotion under the most adverse circumstances. Early on the morning of 15 July 1918, these men, then stationed at Bochage Farm, France, volunteered to go to the Bois d’Aigremont, where several batteries of French artillery were then stationed, a distance of one kilometer, in order that they might give aid to the many French and American wounded there, knowing that the intervening distance was being heavily bombarded and that the wood was being swept by shell fire and heavily gassed. The return after having spent one and one-half hours in the wood bringing in the wounded, getting them under cover, and giving them much needed medical attention, was made through even heavier shellfire with not even a shell hole to get into for protection.