Firth Ernest

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Ernest Firth is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

26th Division Tablets of the Fallen (WW1)

Name:

Ernest Firth

Rank:

Private First Class

Serial Number:

Unit:

102nd Infantry Regiment

Date of Death:

1918-07-23

State:

Connecticut

Cemetery:

West Cemetery, Bristol, Connecticut

Plot:

Row:

Grave:

Decoration:

Distinguished Service Cross

Comments:

Ernest Firth was born on November 1, 1897. He was the son of George G. Firth and Mary Stephenson Firth. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I as a Private First Class in Company D, 102nd Infantry Regiment, 26th Infantry "Yankee" Division. He was Killed in Action on July 23, 1918 at Chateau-Thierry, France at the age of 20 and is now buried in West Cemetery, Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for gallanrty and great courage in the Seicheprey engagement in the morning of April 20, 1918, when he recovered two wounded men under a heavy fire and carried them to cover, and afterwards successfully carried a message through very heavily shell-swept area from Seicheprey to the French in Remiere Woods and returned through the same shell-swept area with a reply.