Paris, France. This picture shows the size of one of the heroes of the war. This is Henri Cardi, who was born in Berona, Itlay, in 1903. His parents died when he was 4 years old. In 1914 he joined the Italian Bersaglieri, 4th Regt. and remained with them on the Piave front, almost constantly in the Trenches, until 1916 when the French 70th Infantry which had been fighting in that sector, left for France and he accompanied them. While with the Italian Army he was wounded in the hand. He received the Italian Cross of War. He fought on the Somme, Argonne, Champagne, Verdun and on the Lorraine fronts, with the French 70th Infantry and was wounded twice in the left side and in the right leg. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre by General Francois, the citation mentioning his two wounds and the capture of three Germans in the night with a rifle. While with the 70th Infantry he was widely known as the "Little Corporal". When the 70th Infantry was changing fronts from the Lorraine sector in Sept. 1918 he became lost in Nancy and was adopted by a detachment of the 40th Engineers, Camouflage, United States Army, and was made an honorary sergeant of that outfit by the Colonel. The above is vouched for by the Italian Consulate, Nancy, France
