Harold Brown
Home Town: Bakersfield, CA
General Orders 74, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harold Brown, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Charlevaux, France, October 4, 1918. When the first two battalions of his regiment had been surrounded by the enemy, Private Brown volunteered to accompany a patrol for the purpose of establishing liaison with the forward troops, knowing from the fate of previous patrols that the mission would probably prove fatal. He was killed as the patrol was attempting unsuccessfully to reach the forward battalions.
