Dewey Edward Wright

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Dewey Edward Wright, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Soissons, France, July 19, 1918. In the advance Private Wright and two comrades were cut off from the rest of the company by the enemy. He resisted stoutly until he fell with a rifle-shot wound through both legs and was taken prisoner. Two days later, during the advance of our troops, he assisted in the capture of all the enemy in a dugout by calling to the troops and disclosing his position.