Burr Finkle
Home Town: Middletown, NY
General Orders No. 108, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Burr Finkle, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Villers-sur- Fere, France, on July 28, 1918. Private Finkle saw six Germans about to make a prisoner of his corporal, who had been severely wounded in the ankle. He called a comrade and advanced on the Germans, killing two of them, and took the other four prisoners, returned with his corporal safely to our lines.
