Brodie West
Home Town: Pikeville, NC
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 50, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Brodie West, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bellicourt, France, September 29, 1918. When his automatic squad had become lost from the platoon in a heavy smoke barrage, Corporal West advanced alone upon a machine- gun nest, which was firing directly from the front, silenced the gun, and returned to our lines with 37 prisoners.