Richard Worthington
Home Town: Swifton, AR
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 72, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Richard Worthington, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Soissons, France, July 18, 1918. Knowing that the enemy had captured a wounded member of his company, Corporal Worthington, with two others, advanced across dangerous ground to a barn, where they routed the enemy captors and carried back their comrade to safety.