Buel Received Croix de Guerre

Recent dispatches from France report the decoration with the croix de guerre of Private Richard Van Wyck Buel '18, of Section 642 of the U.S.A. Ambulance Corps. Buel received the cross for bravery under fire in an engagement on the Aisne during the last week of February. He was sent to the front-line trenches, it is said, to rescue men suffering from an unusually severe gas attack, and was wounded by a German shell while in performance of his duty. He was awarded the medal while in the base hospital on March 1.