Hugh T. Caywood
Home Town: Eureka, KS
General Orders No. 59, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Hugh T. Caywood, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cheppy, France, September 26, 1918. While a member of a platoon of wire cutters, Second Lieutenant Caywood, with the assistance of a comrade, attacked and captured an enemy machine-gun nest that was holding up the advance. One officer, six men and two guns were taken, in the face of intense machine-gun fire.
