Clarence Awbery
Home Town: Elk Creek, KY
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Clarence Awbery, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fontaines, France, November 7, 1918. Private Awbery, accompanied by three other soldiers, volunteered and went out under heavy machine-gun and artillery fire to rescue a wounded comrade. Failing in the first attempt they again tried, and this time succeeded in bringing the wounded man to the shelter.
