Rexford O. Bassett
Home Town: Enid, OK
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 72, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Rexford O. Bassett, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Les Hult Chemins, France, September 26, 1918. Corporal Bassett volunteered to rush an enemy machine gun which had concentrated its fire on an opening in some barbed-wire entanglement through which his company was endeavoring to advance. He gallantly attacked the pill box and temporarily silenced one of the fire openings when he was mortally wounded.