(MILITARY) Our Colored Heroes Henry Johnson Needham Roberts

Sale 2105 - Lot 278

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(MILITARY.) Our Colored Heroes. Henry Johnson, Needham Roberts. Honored as Heroes. Chromolithograph "uplift" print, 20x16 inches. Chicago: Renesch, 1918

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"Before daylight on May 15, Pte. Henry Johnson and Pte. Roberts while on sentry duty at some distance from one another, were attacked by a German raiding party estimated at twenty men . . . Both men fought bravely in hand-to-hand encounters, one resorting to the use of a bolo knife after his rifle jammed . . ." The two single-handedly were able to rout the Germans. The French were the only ones to recognize their bravery by awarding them the Croix-de-Guerre medal.