Hedford West

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Hedford West, Mechanic, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Montrebeau Woods, France, September 29, 1918. Seeing a comrade lying wounded in advance of our lines, Mechanic West left a shell hole and exposing himself to heavy machine-gun fire, went into the open, and assisted by another soldier, carried the wounded man back to safety.