Hedford West
Home Town: Salina, KS
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 71, W.D., 1919
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.