Clifton Burnett

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Clifton Burnett, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Montrefagne, France, October 9, 1918. On October 9, Sergeant Burnett volunteered and established liaison between battalion commanders and brigade headquarters, under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire. On the same day he twice volunteered and carried messages and acting as guide across fields subjected to shell and machine-gun fire. He repeatedly repaired telephone wires when no lineman were available and continued this work through shell fire and gas bombardment, although four of the men working with him were wounded.