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Letters From Pershing Ave. Received by Head of Unit in France Letters of commendation from Gen eral Pershing, commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, from Lieutenant Colonel W. H. Tefft of the Medical Corps, and from First Lieutenant Eugene E. Berl of the Sanitary Corps, referring to the Fourth Stanford Ambulance Unit, S. S. U. 578, which left the University in June, 1917, have just been received at the Regis trar’s Office. The letters all make special mention of the work done by this unit at Evacu ation Hospital No. 7 in France. This ambulance unit was organized at Stan ford in the spring of 1917 and was the first to go overseas as a regular army unit. The unit was officered and trained at Allentown, Pa. Five men in the unit wear gold wound stripes as a result of injuries received in action. They are: Fred M. Cronen wett, 17; Hallock E. Hoffman, ’18; Roy E. Needham, '16; Melvin Price, ’19. Word was received this morning that Donald Clark, 18, had been awarded the Croix de Guerre with a star, Clark (Continued on Page 2)
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Stanford Daily
Stanford, California, US
Fri, Jan 31, 1919
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