George W. Botelle
Home Town: Waterbury, CT
General Orders 71, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to George W. Botelle, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Charlevaux Mill, France, October 4, 1918. Private Botelle repeatedly carried messages over ground swept by intense enemy fire. When his battalion had been surrounded and several other runners had been killed or wounded in the attempt, he volunteered to carry a message through the enemy lines to the regimental post of command, being severely wounded in the performance of this mission.
