James Edward Fore
Home Town: Union, SC
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to James Edward Fore, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at St. Martin-Riviere, France, October 17, 1918. While engaged with four other soldiers in mopping up a village, Sergeant Fore led his men in a flank attack on a machine-gun neat and captured the crew, numbering 18. Pushing forward, he organized a squad of stragglers and captured an entire company of Germans, including two officers.
