Corp. Otho Holland Returns With French Honors, May 24, 1919

From The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., May 24, 1919

Won the Highest Honors

Corporal Otho C. Holland of Middlesex of the 6^th regiment of Marines returns from France with distinguished bravery and the order signed by General Petain of the French army states that in the Champagne sector from the 3^rd to the 9^th of October 1918 he captured an enemy machine gun and with this gun and eight boxes of ammunition, which he also captured, inflicted heavy losses on the enemy at their counter attack and captured a number of the enemy.

Corporal Holland was in a number of engagements and gives an interesting description of the fighting in the battles of Chateau-Thierry, Soissons, St. Mihiel, and in the Argonne.

In recognition of this bravery, the young man was presented and wears the Croix du Guerre and on this palm, which denotes a higher honor than the Croix.