Luther C. Griffith
Home Town: Reidsville, NC
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 81, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Luther C. Griffith, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bellicourt, France, September 29, 1918. When the other members of a Lewis gun crew had become casualties, Private Griffith operated the gun single-handed, and, attacking an enemy machine-gun emplacement, killed the gunner and made the other two members of the crew prisoners.