Bryan Beckwith
Home Town: Fayetteville, NC
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Bryan Beckwith, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ypres, Belgium, August 25, 1918, At imminent peril to his own life, Lieutenant Beckwith (then a sergeant) and two companions extinguished a fire in an ammunition dump caused by a bursting shell, thereby preventing the explosion of the dump and saving the lives of a large number of men who were in the vicinity.
