Hildred D. Davis
Home Town: Springfield, IL
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Hildred D. Davis, Bugler, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Butgneville, France, November 11, 1918. When his platoon and the infantry company to which it was attached were held up by hostile obstructions and machine-gun fire, Bugler Davis volunteered and carried a message to the left flank of the company. A few minutes afterwards he again distinguished himself by leaving the cover of a trench, going forward under heavy machine-gun fire, and helping rescue a wounded officer.
