Cpl.
Bedford B. Lunsford
(Killed in Action)
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TENNESSEANS WERE
CITED FOR BRAVERY The
members of the 117th Infantry from Tennessee, and two others, one from South
Carolina, and one from Iowa are mentioned in the citation of the war
department issued for today, for their extraordinary heroism in action during
the fighting in the early part of October, in France. The
citations include the names of Corporal Bedford B. Lunsford, who came from
Mount Vernon, Tenn., and who was with Company M, whose award comes
posthumously; Private Leonard Fritts, also of Company
M., from Laurel Bloomery; Sergeant Berlin Wesley
Brown, of Tellico Plains; Sergeant Andrew J. Padgett, of Gaffney, SC, and
Private Otis Turner, of Albia, Iowa. References
to the heroism of these men by the commander-in-chief of the American forces
in France, are as follows: Corpl. Bedford B. Lunsford, deceased,
Company M. 117th infantry, (A.S.N. 1309112.)
For extraordinary heroism in action near Bellincourt,
France, Oct. 7, 1918. When the line
was held up by enemy machine gun fire, Corpl.
Lunsford strapped an automatic rifle to his shoulder and advanced in the face
of machine gun fire. Firing as he went
forward, he killed four of the enemy before he fell near riddled with
bullets. Next of Kin, Thomas Lunsford,
father, of Mount Vernon, Tenn. The
Johnson City Staff, Fri., Jan 3, 1919
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