Hursey A. Dakin
Home Town: Freewater, OR
General Orders No. 27, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Hursey A. Dakin, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Bois-de-Jure, near Gercourt, France, September 26, 1918. Corporal Dakin volunteered with another soldier to attack a machine-gun nest which was holding up the advance. They advanced against very heavy machine-gun fire and captured the position, killing 2 Germans and routing the remainder of the gun crew.
