Eliot A. Carter
Home Town: Nashua, NH
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Eliot A. Carter, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bois- de-St. Remy, France, September 12, 1918. Advancing against greatly superior numbers of the enemy, Lieutenant Carter was painfully wounded. He refused evacuation until his objective was reached, and during the combat captured or killed more than 60 of the enemy.
