James H. West
Home Town: Hokes Bluff, AL
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 126, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to James H. West, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ancerviller, France, March 4, 1928. Sergeant West was a member of a patrol of five men which, on March 4, 1918, encountered an enemy patrol of 11 men, which it attacked and routed, taking two prisoners.