North Carolina. Dept. of Public Instruction. North Carolina Day. Friday, November 11, 1921. Armistice Day. North Carolina in the World War
BUNCOMBE COUNTY:
BRYAN BECKWITH, second lieutenant, Company F, 119th Infantry. For extraordinary heroism in action near Ypres, Belgium, August 25, 1918. At imminent peril to his life, Lieutenant Beckwith (then a sergeant) and two companious extinguished a fire in an ammunition dump, caused by a bursting shell, thereby preventing the explosion of the dump and saving the lives of a large number of men who were in the vicinity.
Home address, Robert B. Beckwith, Black Mountain, N. C. (G. O. 44, W. D., 1919.)