George Colville, Jr.

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to George Colville, Jr., Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Remonville, France, November 1, 1918. Corporal Colville (then private first class) was a member of a machine-gun crew firing at close range from a shell hole in an open field, when their gun became disabled. Thereupon he and two other soldiers advanced with pistols upon the enemy machine-gun nest, at which they had been firing, and captured it with three guns and nine prisoners. Putting one of the captured guns into immediate action against the enemy, they enabled the Infantry to advance with a minimum of casualties.