Elmer Preston Richards
Home Town: Moundville, MO
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Elmer Preston Richards, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Xammes, France, September 18, 1918. Knowing that, on account of the intense shelling, it would be impossible to supply the men in the front line with rations, Private Richards, in a wounded condition, procured a quantity of rations, and, carrying them to the line through heavy shell fire, personally distributed to each man a portion.
