John W. Foust
Home Town: Lexington, NC
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John W. Faost, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cunel, France, October 22, 1918. After all the officers of his company had been wounded, Sergeant Faust (then corporal) assumed command, and with great courage and bravery organized a detachment, recapturing two of his machine guns that had fallen to the enemy in a counterattack earlier in the day.
