Thomas F. Bailey
Home Town: Williamstown, MO
General Orders No. No. 4, W.D., 1923
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Thomas F. Bailey, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Barricourt, France, November 1, 1918. Corporal Bailey, seeing that the advance of his platoon was stopped by machine-gun fire from the right front, took three men with him, and, with a rush in the face of a withering fire, charged the machine gun and captured it and the crew of five prisoners, thereby saving his platoon from the destructive fire of the gun and enabling it to immediately continue to advance.
