Thomas D. Curfman
Home Town: Steubenville, OH
General Orders 74, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Thomas D. Curfman, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Exermont, France, October 5, 1918. When the advance of his company was retarded by machine-gun fire Sergeant Curfman took an automatic rifle from a wounded gunner and went forward alone to a position from which he opened fire and destroyed the enemy nest. He was himself mortally wounded.
