Frederick P. Craven
Home Town: Roxbury, MA
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Frederick P. Craven, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Landres St. Georges, France, October 15, 1918. After all company and battalion liaison agents had been killed or wounded, in an attempt to deliver an important message to the battalion commander, Private Craven voluntarily undertook the task. Under heavy machine-gun, sniper and artillery fire he accomplished his mission and returned with an answer.
