Luther F. Davis
Home Town: Chattanooga, TN
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Luther F. Davis, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Busigny, France, October 9, 1918. While commanding a platoon Sergeant Davis repeatedly volunteered and went forward to draw fire from enemy machine gun, thereby locating the positions of the machine-gun posts and facilitating their destruction.