Neal D. Fenton
Home Town: Hutchinson, KS
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Neal D. Fenton, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Verdun, France, October 6, 1918. Corporal Fenton volunteered and went forward in the face of direct concentrated machine-gun fire to the rescue of a wounded man. He was killed while attempting this rescue.