Burt T. Forbes
Home Town: Greenville, NC
General Orders 81, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Burt T. Forbes, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ypres, Belgium, September 1, 1918. While his patrol was acting as a flank guard, with orders not to fire unless absolutely necessary, Corporal Forbes detected an enemy patrol of eight men approaching and starting to set up a machine-gun. Crawling forward alone, he charged the enemy patrol and single-handed killed three Germans and routed the other five.
