Burnwell C. Jackson
Home Town: Kingston, NC
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 15, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Burnwell C. Jackson, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Soissons, France, July 19, 1918. Private Jackson, alone, captured a machine-gun, killed two of the crew, and took the remaining three prisoners. Later in the same day he was killed while making a similar attempt.