Bernard B. Curtis
Home Town: Hopewell, VA
General Orders No. 126, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Bernard B. Curtis, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Bois- de-Brabant, France, October 8, 1918. Corporal Curtis courageously continued to lead his squad against the enemy, after being painfully wounded in the face by shell fragments, refusing to obtain first aid in order not to delay the advance of his squad.
