CARDER ROAD WAR MEMORIAL PHOTOGRAPH
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Listing Details
Type of Memorial: Road of Remembrance Memorials
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: WORLD WAR I
Photograph By: LARRY GERTNER
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
CARDER, CYRIL
Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army
Company D, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division, A.E.F.
Date of Action: July 21, 1918
Citation:
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Cyril Carder, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Soissons, France, July 21, 1918. Having been wounded in the back and arm, Lieutenant Carder refused to be evacuated, but continued to lead his platoon forward in the face of intense machine-gun fire, repeatedly exposing himself, with total disregard for personal safety, until he was killed by machine-gun fire.
General Orders 89, W.D., 1919
Home Town: New York, NY
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