William L. Dickerson
Home Town: Pelzer, SC
General Orders No. No. 132, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William L. Dickerson, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Soissons, France, July 19, 1918. With two other soldiers Private Dickerson rushed a machine-gun position, killed the crew and captured the gun in order to make the advance of his platoon possible.
