Andrew W. Capwell

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Andrew W. Capwell, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Bois de la Brigade de Marines (Bois-de-Belleau), France, July 19, 1918. Private Capwell made 19 trips from the wood across a field swept by heavy machine-gun fire, carrying to shelter 18 soldiers and one officer, who had been wounded. He himself was wounded next morning by a shell-shocked soldier whom he was trying to aid.