Ned Crawford
Home Town: Hood River, OR
General Orders No. No. 127, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ned Crawford, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Epinonville, France, October 2, 1918. When the telephone station in which he was working was struck by a shell, killing two men and injuring five, Private Crawford disregarded personal safety and continued to operate his switchboard in an exposed position, in order that communication might be maintained until a new central could be established in a new location.
