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The Distinguished Service Cross
Colleton County, South Carolina Genealogy
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*Indicates posthumous award
Edward B. Hope, first
lieutenant, 5th Regiment, United States Marine Corps. At
Chalteau-Thierry, France, June 6, 1918, he displayed coolness and
courage in directing his platoon in attaek, during which he was
badly wounded, but refused assistance until wounded men near him had
been treated. Residence at appointment : Walterboro, S.C.
Curtis Mims
Strickland (Army serial No. 1312553), corporal, Company
M, 113th Infantry. For extraordinary heroism in action near
Brancourt, France, October 8,1918. Crawling several hundred feet
under deadly rifle and machine-gun fire, Corpl. Strickland, with
another soldier, flanked a shell hole wherein a number of the enemy
were hiding. In this heroic exploit he either killed or captured 14
of the enemy as well as taking a machine gun. Residence at
enlistment : Colleton, S.C.
*Youmum Z. Weeks,
corporal, Company F.,118th Infantry. For extraordinary heroism in
action near Bellicourt, France, September 30, 1918 and October 8,
1918. Corpl. Weeks on the morning of September 30, when two
enemy machine guns were making part of the line untenable, advanced
across open ground upon one of the guns, rushed the position alone,
captured the gun and five of the enemy, and shot down the sixth, who
endeavored to escape. By this gallant act he prevented the
enemy from enfilading our position and thereby saved the lives of
many of his comrades. In a later advance, while leading his
men in an attack upon an enemy machine-gun next, he was
killed. Emergency address: Andrew J. Weeks, father,
Colleton, S.C. Residence at enlistment: Colleton,
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