Willis E. Comfort
Home Town: Kit Carson, CO
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 15, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Willis E. Comfort, Captain, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Soissons, France, July 18, 1918. After being severely injured Captain comfort refused to be evacuated, but energetically led his company forward to its objective and maintained it there until he was mortally wounded.