Ora Lee Butcher
Home Town: Pattonsburg, MO
General Orders No. No. 139, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ora Lee Butcher, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Bois-de-Mort Mare, near Flirey, France, September 12, 1918. Private Butcher, on duty as an observer at battalion headquarters, twice volunteered to carry important messages from his battalion commander to company commanders. In so doing he passed through heavy barrages.
