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Awards Received

  • Distinguished Service Cross

    Service:

    United States Army

    Rank:

    Private

    Regiment:

    372d Infantry Regiment

    Division:

    93d Division, American Expeditionary Forces

    Action Date:

    September 28 – 29, 1918

    War Department, General Orders No. 13 (1919)

    The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Private Clifford Crawford (ASN: 2335087), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Headquarters Company, 372d Infantry Regiment, 93d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Bussy Farm, France, September 28 – 29, 1918. Private Crawford was acting as liaison agent between regimental headquarters and the battalion. Having carried a message through a heavy bombardment to the commander of a battalion which was about to make an attack, he joined the first wave of the attack and dashed into the enemy’s trenches. Seeing two of the enemy rush to a dugout, he followed them and brought ten prisoners from the dugout, killing two who tried to escape.