Myron M. Funderburk

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Myron M. Funderburk, Mechanic, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Brancourt, France, October 8, 1918. Mechanic Funderburk was acting as a stretcher bearer for his company, which was suffering many casualties as it advanced. While he was carrying a wounded soldier, Mechanic Funderburk was himself seriously wounded in the shoulder. He continued, under heavy artillery fire, to evacuate the wounded until he fell from exhaustion.