Millard Smith
Home Town: Vox, KY
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 21, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Millard Smith, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Beaumont, France, November 8, 1918. During an advance of his company, terrific machine-gun fire was encountered, the enemy being strongly entrenched in a ravine. With a patrol of ten men, Sergeant Smith attacked the position, but lost several of his men in the first encounter. “With the remaining few he continued and silenced the fire of the enemy.