Document
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Title
Sammie Lee Williams – Birmingham Post-Herald Article, “Cross Awarded Weeks for Work Along Meuse”
Relationship
Murder Book Section
Description
April 8, 1919 article from the Birmingham Post-Herald reporting that Private Mody A. Weeks received the Distinguished Service Cross for actions during World War I. The article describes Weeks’s service with Company F, Seventh Engineers, including his role in placing cables across the Meuse River for a pontoon bridge while under German fire, and reproduces portions of a letter Weeks sent to his brother describing combat operations in France. The article also identifies Weeks as a son of C. M. Weeks of Crews Depot, Lamar County, Alabama, and includes a photograph of Weeks in military uniform.
Section Order
90.56