Herbert S. Turrentine
Home Town: Winston-Salem, NC
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Herbert S. Turrentine, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ypres, Belgium, August 31, 1918. After his platoon sergeant and a corporal had been shot while firing an automatic rifle, Private Turrentine ran forward across an open space and picked up the gun, but was instantly killed by sniper fire while attempting to get the automatic gun back into action.