William C. Barbour

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William C. Barbour, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Busigny, France, October 9, 1918. During the operations near Busigny, on October 9, Private Barbour, with one other soldier, voluntarily left his place of comparative safety and advanced into the open in the face of close-range machine-gun fire, to rescue a severely wounded comrade. He received a severe wound while engaged in this self-appointed task, from which he later died.