Mathew S. Fox
Home Town: York, NY
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Mathew S. Fox, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Consenvoye, France, November 4, 1918. While the battery position was being subjected to severe bombardment of gas and high explosive shells, Corporal Fox, in an effort to rescue two wounded comrades, extinguished a pile of burning camouflage which was used as a cover for the ammunition and fuses. While fighting the burning camouflage, the ammunition was exploded by another bursting shell.
