Willis E. Comfort, United States Army: The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Captain (Infantry) Willis E. Comfort, for extraordinary heroism while serving with 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division, A.E.F., near Soissons, France, 18 July 1918. After being severely injured Captain Comfort refused to be evacuated, but energetically led his company forward to its objective and maintained it there until he was mortally wounded.

Comfort was born in Onaga, Kansas on January 27, 1892 and buried in Sunset Cemetery, Manhattan, Kansas which is across the street from where his sponsor, Mike McDermott DSC-OLC, lives. Comfort was commissioned through the ROTC program at Kansas State. He sailed with the American First Expeditionary Division and arrived in France as part of the initial force. Prior to his death, he was the Commander of Company F which suffered the first three Americans KIA during a German trench raid on November 3, 1917.