Charles A. Doughty
Home Town: Broadwater, VA
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 95, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles A. Doughty, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near La Fontaine au Croncq Farm, France, November 4, 1918. As a stretcher bearer, Private Doughty displayed exceptional courage in removing wounded men from a field swept by enemy machine-gun fire of such intensity that five men, other soldiers engaged in this work, were killed, and another wounded.