Evening star

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Marines there, received the Haiti

Medal of Honor and Merit as grand

officer; Brig. Gen. Douglas Cassel Mc

Dougal, general officer; Col. James

Meade, grand commander, and Maj.

Alfred H. Noble, First Lieut. Reginald

H. Ridgely, jr.; First Lieut. Nels H.

Nelson, and Chief Quartermaster

Cleric Elmer E. Barde, officers.

The following have been decorated

with the same medal in the grade of

chevalier; Capt. Louis R. Woods. Capt.

Jesse A. Nelson and Capt. Henry A.

Carr; First Lieuts. Ivan W. Miller, Ira

L. Kimes. Frank M. June; Second

Lieuts. Zebulon C. Hopkins, William

A. Willis; Chief Marine Gunner Harold

Ogden and Marine Technical Sergt.

William Stanard.

From France, via Haiti, medals will

have been awarded the folowing also;

Capt. E. J. Farrell, Sergt. Maj. C.

Svenson, First Sergt. C. O. Whitney

and Gunnery Sergt. B. J. Durr.

Maj. Gen. Commandant Ben H.

Fuller, retired, now a resident of Ham

ilton. Va„ has been awarded by the

Dominican government the Medal of

Merit, and by the Republic of Nica

ragua the special award of the Presi

dential Medal of Merit.

Col. George C. Thorpe, retired, who

has long been a resident of the Capi

tal, will shortly have presented to him

a medal for services rendered more

than 30 years ago in East Africa, when,

as a captain of Marines aboard the

historic cruiser Baltimore, he was or

dered to go ashore in command of a

detachment of his Marines, and

mounted on elephants, to proceed over

the African desert sands of Abyssinia

to King Menelik to whom he delivered

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1934). Washington, D.C., 1934-09-02. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1934-09-02/ed-1/?sp=45

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1934-09-02.