Harford D. Smith

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harford D. Smith, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Sivry, France, October 18, 1918. Corporal Smith volunteered and led an automatic-rifle crew forward, silencing a machine-gun nest which was holding up the advance of his company. He worked his way forward through a barrage from four machine-gun nests, killing all the occupants of two nests and forcing the others to withdraw, thus permitting his company to advance.