Claude J. Hunsaker

Private first class, 1979135, Machine Gun Company, 120th Infantry, 30th Division

Silver Star. Citation Orders No. 3, General Headquarters, A. E. F., France, June 3, 1919: The following named officers and enlisted men of the American Expeditionary Forces are cited for gallantry in action and are entitled to wear a silver star..........Private Claude Hunsaker, Machine Gun Company, 120th Infantry. For gallantry in action near Bellicourt, September 30, 1918, in going to the aid of a wounded comrade under heavy enemy fire......By command of General Pershing: James G. Harbord, Chief of Staff. Official: Robert C. Davis, Adjutant General.

Division Citation (Silver Star citation superseded by citation from General Headquarters). General Orders No. 2, Headquarters 30th Division, A. E. F., France, January 10, 1919: The following citations for acts of meritorious conduct described are published to the command: ........Private Claude Husnaker, Machine Gun Company, 120th Infantry. On the night of September 30, 1918, near Bellicourt, while the company was in the Hindenburg Line a shells truck in one of the machine-gun positions killing two of the men and seriously wounding a third man. These two soldiers, together with three others volunteered to go and get this wounded man and carry him to the dressing station. These soldiers with their lieutenant and three other soldiers went after the wounded man through a concentrated barrage and carried him six hundred yards to the dressing station. Their courage could not have better been proven and is worthy of the utmost commendation.....By command of Major General Lewis: John K. Herr, Chief of Staff. Official: Andrew J. White, Lieutenant Colonel, Infantry, U. S. Army, Adjutant.

Record. Born May 27, 1896, Lane Township, Warrick County; son of Isaac T. and Rebecca C. (McKinney) Hunsaker. Farmer, Lynnville. Entered service September 19, 1917, Boonville. Training: Camp Taylor, Kentucky. Assigned to Company A, 335th Infantry; transferred to Machine Gun Company, 120th Infantry. Private first class, January 4, 1919. Overseas may 17, 1918 - April 13, 1919. Battles: Bellicourt, Cambrai, St. Quentin, Ypres. Discharged April 24, 1919.

Married Hazel M. Ellis. Daughters, Ruth O., Annis B., Maude L.          Folsomville.