Russel K. Adair
Home Town: Tolesboro, KY
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Russel K. Adair, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fontaines, France, November 7, 1918. Private Adair, accompanied by three other soldiers, volunteered and went out under heavy machine-gun and artillery fire to rescue a wounded comrade. Failing in the first attempt, they again tried, and this time succeeded in bringing the wounded man to shelter.