Quincy Adams
Home Town: Limestone, ME
General Orders 71, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Quincy Adams, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Xon Hill, France, September 13, 1918. Facing intense machine-gun fire, Corporal Adams went forward with another soldier for two hundred yards and rescued a wounded infantryman who had fallen when the patrol he was with had been forced back by hostile fire. Corporal Adams showed utter disregard for personal danger.
