Soldiers all; portraits and sketches of the men of the AEF. . duty as MilitaryAttache in : Brigadier General, August 5, 1917;Major General, August 8, : Commanded 51st Field Artillery Brigade, 26th Divi-sion, November, 1917;Chief of Artillery, 1st Army Corps, May, 1918;Chief of Artillery, 4th Army Corps, August, 1918;Chief of Artillery, 2nd Army, October, 1918;Later commanded 32nd Division in Army of : Virginia, September 29, Service Medal. For exceptionally meritorious and distin-guished services. As commander of the Fifty-fi
Soldiers all; portraits and sketches of the men of the AEF. . duty as MilitaryAttache in : Brigadier General, August 5, 1917;Major General, August 8, : Commanded 51st Field Artillery Brigade, 26th Divi-sion, November, 1917;Chief of Artillery, 1st Army Corps, May, 1918;Chief of Artillery, 4th Army Corps, August, 1918;Chief of Artillery, 2nd Army, October, 1918;Later commanded 32nd Division in Army of : Virginia, September 29, Service Medal. For exceptionally meritorious and distin-guished services. As commander of the Fifty-first Field Brigade, as chief of Artillery of theFirst and Fourth Army Corps in turn, and aschief of Artillery, Second Army, he showedhimself to be a leader of conspicuous energy and sound judgment influencedgreatly the successful operations of his com-mands on the Vesle, at the St. Mihiel salient,and in the Toul sector. He later commandedwith skill and a marked success the Thirty-second Infantry Division. G. O. 12 (Janu-ary 17, 1919). [433 ] ^y-. m WILLIAM A. SNOW, Major, Corps of Engineers. 2nd in France September, 1917, as Captain, , 2nd Engineers, 2nd was cited four times in Division orders and twicerecommended for the Distinguished Service went into the line first at Verdun, March, the British were attacked by the Boches in thevicinity of Beauvais, in April, he was with them. Hereceived his majority in time to be in command ofa battalion at Chateau-Thierry. His battalion actedas Infantry and as Engineers. During this periodhe was wounded twice—once on June 12th, in thefamous attack on the Bois de Belleau, and once onJuly 5th while working on wire entanglements. Hewas again in the fighting in the line south of Soissonsin the Allied Counter Offensive beginning July regiment had the Croix de Guerre pinned on itscolors for its work in this fight. At Pont-a-Moussonhe was again engaged on trench and wire en
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