Fred C. Pruitt
Home Town: Mount Airy, NC
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 32, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Fred C. Pruitt, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ypres, Belgium, August 25, 1918. At imminent peril to his own life, Sergeant Pruitt and two companions extinguished a fire in an ammunition dump, caused by a bursting shell, thereby preventing the explosion of the dump and saving the lives of a large number of men who were in the vicinity.