Ray N. Benjamin
Home Town: Gray Court, SC
General Orders No. 32, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ray N. Benjamin, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Blanc Mont, France, October 6, 1918. While commanding a detachment of wire cutters working in advance of the Infantry, Lieutenant Benjamin was painfully wounded by a shell fragment, but he refused to leave his men until his mission was accomplished and the advance of the Infantry assured.
