Harold Bedolfe
Home Town: Oakland, CA
General Orders No. No. 5, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harold Bedolfe, Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Thibaut, France, August 5, 1918. Sergeant First Class Bedolfe went forward, exposed to intense rifle, machine-gun, and artillery fire, and carried on his back, with the assistance of another soldier, a badly wounded comrade to a shell hole, thus saving the life of the wounded soldier. In the performance of this act Sergeant Bedolfe was severely wounded.