Harry D. Barton
Home Town: Youngstown, OH
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harry D. Barton, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fleville, France, October 4, 1918. Being in charge of one of the sections of drivers of his platoon when it was caught in an enemy barrage, Corporal Barton unlimbered his gun and caisson, removed his horses and drivers to a place of safety, and returning to his platoon acted as runner, passing four times over heavily shelled areas.
