John Carver
Home Town: Maggie, NC
General Orders 81, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John Carver, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bellicourt, France, September 29, 1918. With another soldier, Corporal Carver attacked and demolished two enemy machine-gun posts 200 yards in advance of our lines. He then stood guard at the entrance of a dugout while the other soldier entered it and brought out 75 German soldiers and three officers, who were taken back to the line as prisoners.
