Solomon Shahwood
Home Town: Buffalo, NY
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Solomon Shahwood, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Carrefour-de-Meurrussons, France, September 27, 1918. After his company had taken shelter from the enfilading machine-gun and trench-mortar fire of the enemy, Private Shahwood, with two other soldiers, crawled to the aid of wounded comrades, thus saving the lives of at least two, while exposed to terrific fire of the enemy.