Period:

First World War (1914-1918)

Rank:

Private 1st Class

Unit:

Company C, 119th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), U.S. Army

Awarded on:

1919

"For extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 119th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division, A.E.F., near Busigny, France, 9 October 1918. During the operations near Busigny, on 9 October Private Barbour, with one other soldier, voluntarily left his place of comparative safety and advanced into the open in the face of close-range machine-gun fire, to rescue a severely wounded comrade. He received a severe wound while engaged in this self-appointed task, from which he later died."

War Department, General Orders No. 44 (posthumously awarded)