Samuel Humes Houston
Home Town: Baltimore, MD
General Orders 62, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Samuel Humes Houston, Major, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ville- Savoye, France, August 4, 1918. With but 15 minutes in which to prepare his battalion for attack, Major Houston on horseback galloped from flank to Sank, fully exposed to deadly artillery fire, in order to make the necessary preparations for the advance. After his leading element had started the attack, he was killed by an enemy shell.
