Mody A. Weeks
Home Town: Crews Depot, AL
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Mody A. Weeks, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Brieulles, France, November 3, 1918. Private Weeks showed extraordinary daring and nerve in helping place cables across the River Meuse for a pontoon bridge and later in placing cables across the Eat Canal for the same purpose. The position was under direct observation of German machine-gunners and snipers.