Richard Fuller Woodward
Home Town: Richmond, Long Island, NY
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 32, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Richard Fuller Woodward, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cunel, France, October 9, 1918. Disregarding his intense suffering from wounds, Lieutenant Woodward continued to lead and encourage his men until killed by another rain of machine-gun bullets.