Samuel Wilson Fleming, Jr.
Home Town: Harrisburg, PA
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Samuel Wilson Fleming, Jr., Major, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Beaumont, France, November 9, 1918. On the night of November 9, Major Fleming received a serious and painful wound from a high-explosive shell, but refused to be evacuated, and continued in command of his battalion until the signing of the armistice on November 11. He was exposed not only to heavy enemy fire but to severe weather conditions as well.
