Arthur M. Courtney
Home Town: Friday, TX
General Orders 78, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Arthur M. Courtney, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near La Fontaine au Croncq Farm, France, November 4, 1918. Private Courtney, a stretcher bearer, displayed exceptional gallantry in continuing to remove wounded from a field swept by machine-gun fire of such intensity that five of his associates were killed and two others wounded.
