Braxton B. Harville
Home Town: Edgewater, AL
General Orders No. No. 2, W.D., 1931
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Braxton B. Harville, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Landres-et-St. Georges, France, October 15, 1918. During the attack on the Cote-de-Chatillon corporal Harville volunteered and with utter disregard of his own personal danger went forward alone crawling until he reached a position where he could enfilade an enemy machine-gun nest which was holding up the advance. While continuing on his mission and firing on the enemy next he was knocked down twice by enemy fire, but each time he arose and continued moving forward, until he was killed by a machine-gun bullet when about 50 yards from the nest.
