William E. Hurst
Home Town: Detroit, MI
General Orders 66, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William E. Hurst, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Juvigny, France, August 27, 1918. Upon being sent with a message under heavy machine-gun fire to a platoon commander, Private Hurst found the latter lying wounded. Unassisted, he carried the officer to a shell hole, bound up his wound, and returned to his company commander with important information.
