Archie Riddick
Home Town: Belvaden, NC
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Archie Riddick, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Vaux Audigny, France, October 19, 1918. When the position of his company had become untenable because of enemy machine-gun and artillery fire, Private Riddick, with another soldier, the sole survivors of a Lewis machine-gun team, covered the retreat of their company. Clinging to their advanced post throughout the day, they took up the advance with the company at dusk that evening.
