Newton Rex
Home Town: Bowling Green, OH
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 59, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Newton Rex, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Montfaucon, France, September 27, 1918. Leading a patrol of 12 men from his own and another company, Corporal Rex encountered 35 of the enemy in a ravine. Under terrific enfilading fire from seven machine-guns, he led an attack on the enemy in which five of the latter were killed and 15 captured, together with seven machine-guns.