William F. Harrell
Home Town: Marion, SC
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William F. Harrell, Colonel, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Apremont, France, October 4, 1918. Colonel Harrell (then major) showed extraordinary coolness under fire in the battle of the Argonne. When one portion of his battalion was held up by machine- gun fire he went forward to the most advanced elements, reorganized them, and carried the objective, but was severely wounded while in the execution of his mission.
