William E. Bryant
Home Town: Boswell, OK
General Orders No. 72, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William E. Bryant, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action during the St. Mihiel offensive, France, September 14, 1918. Sergeant Bryant, with four other men, volunteered to cross a valley to the woods opposite and silence machine guns which had held up the advance of his company. In the face of heavy enemy fire this small group accomplished its mission, thus enabling the company to cross the valley without further loss.
