Elijah A. Capps
Home Town: Princeton, NC
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Elijah A. Capps, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bellicourt, France, September 29, 1918. In face of heavy machine-gun fire, Private Capps, with two other soldiers, attacked and put out of action an enemy machine-gun post, capturing a German officer and three soldiers.
