Bedford B. Lunsford
Home Town: Mount Vernon, TN
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. No. 133, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Bedford B. Lunsford, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bellicourt, France, October 7, 1918. When the line was held up by enemy machine-gun fire, Corporal Lunsford strapped an automatic rifle to his shoulder and advanced in the face of machine-gun fire. Firing as he went forward, he killed four of the enemy before he fell, nearly riddled with bullets.