Junius Diggs
Home Town: Chestervield, SC
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Junius Diggs, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ardeuil, France, September 30, 1918. After his company had been forced to withdraw from an advanced position under severe machine-gun and artillery fire, Private Diggs went forward and rescued wounded soldiers, working persistently until all of them had been carried to shelter.
