Hugh C. Carter
Home Town: Baltimore, MD
General Orders No. 1, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Hugh C. Carter, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Verdun, France, October 11 – 17, 1918. On October 11 Private Carter dressed and treated wounded men on the front line under shell fire continuously for two hours. On October 16 he carried a wounded officer on his back, under shell fire, into the first-aid station. On October 17 he directed litter bearers to the front line and helped to evacuate the wounded. All during the drive he went back and forth to the dressing station for bandages and medicine for the wounded, and daily during the attacks he would search the woods for wounded men.
