Curtis Mims Strickland
Home Town: Colleton, SC
General Orders No. 50, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Curtis Mims Strickland, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Brancourt, France, October 8, 1918. Crawling several hundred feet under deadly rifle and machine-gun fire, Corporal Strickland, with another soldier, flanked a shell hole, wherein a number of the enemy were hiding. In this heroic exploit he either killed or captured 14 of the enemy, as well as taking a machine-gun.
