Howard Hubber Davis
Home Town: Cleveland, OH
General Orders No. No. 138, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Howard Hubber Davis, First Lieutenant (Medical Corps), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in Templeux Quarries, France, January 8, 1918. Lieutenant Davis entered a dugout which had been caved in by enemy shell fire and ministered to the wounded. Although the dugout was under heavy shellfire, he performed an operation for amputation of a leg and thereby saved a soldier’s life.
