Marile Chafin
Home Town: Williamson, WV
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Marile Chafin, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fossoy, France, July 15, 1918. While delivering a message, Corporal Chafin was severely wounded by the explosion of a shell, but continued with his mission and returned with an answer before reporting for treatment.
