Joseph W. Starkey
Home Town: Chattanooga, TN
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 21, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Joseph W. Starkey, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Medeah Ferme, France, October 8, 1918. Wounded, but regardless of danger to himself, Lieutenant Starkey led his men through heavy machine-gun and artillery fire in an attack overwhelmingly successful, in which he received a second wound.