Andrew W. Dilbeck
Home Town: Crossville, AL
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Andrew W. Dilbeck, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Pouilly, France, November 10 – 11, 1918. Private Dilbeck, accompanied Lieutenant Murphy and three other soldiers in a flank attack on three heavy machine guns. Fired on directly at 30 yards, they charged the guns, and in the hand-to-hand fight which followed this soldier and two of his comrades were killed.
