Soldiers all; portraits and sketches of the men of the AEF. . rest. OnOctober 14th this officer went out in advance of thefront line to reconnoiter a site for an aid station andan ambulance route. Seeing a wounded officer lyingabout 300 meters from the enemys line, he went tohis rescue and carried him through terrific machine-gun and rifle fire to a shell hole, where he administeredfirst aid, in entire disregard of his own Service Cross. GEORGE L. WATSON, Lieutenant Colonel, General Staff Headquarters, 3rd , as Captain commanding Company B, 30thEngineers (Offens
Soldiers all; portraits and sketches of the men of the AEF. . rest. OnOctober 14th this officer went out in advance of thefront line to reconnoiter a site for an aid station andan ambulance route. Seeing a wounded officer lyingabout 300 meters from the enemys line, he went tohis rescue and carried him through terrific machine-gun and rifle fire to a shell hole, where he administeredfirst aid, in entire disregard of his own Service Cross. GEORGE L. WATSON, Lieutenant Colonel, General Staff Headquarters, 3rd , as Captain commanding Company B, 30thEngineers (Offensive Gas) was attached to the 1stBritish Army. Later he was in command of the1st Battalion, 30th Engineers, attached to the 8thFrench Army. As Major commanding the 1st Bat-talion, he was attached to the First Army Corps andthe 4th Army Corps, A. E. F. After the signingof the Armistice he was detailed to the General Staffand promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, onthe General Staff of the 3rd was wounded three times and mentioned in Or- [ 443 ]. ders five times. He was awarded many decorations,French, English, Belgian, Portuguese and Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre withPalm were awarded him For his success in carryingout the first American Gas Projector Attack againstthe Germans and standing for two hours in gas whichthe Germans had thrown. MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM R. SMITH Arrived in France, July 31, 1918. Commanded 36th Division, August 3, : Tennesse, April 2, 1868. The 36th Division fought with the Fourth FrenchArmy. The 36th Division, U. S. A., recently organized,and still not fully equipped, received, during thenight of the 6th of October, the order to relieve,under conditions particularly delicate, the 2nd Divi-sion, to drive out the enemy from the heights to thenorth of St. Atienne-a-Arnes, and to push him backto the Aisne. Although being under fire for the firsttime, the young soldiers of General Smith, rivallingin push and tenacit
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