AMEDD Distinguished Service Cross Recipients

EVERHART, CHESTER H.
Private, U.S. Army
337th Ambulance Company, 310th Sanitary Train, 85th Division (Detachment in North Russia)
Date of Action: April 2, 1919
Citation:
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Chester H. Everhart, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bolshieozerke, Russia, April 2, 1919. Private Everhart went forward some 200 yards in front of our lines into an area swept by artillery and machine-gun fire to assist in bringing a wounded man to a place of safety.
General Orders: General Order No. 16, W.D., 1920
Home Town: Detroit, MI

KILROY, LAWRENCE B.
Private, U.S. Army
377th Ambulance Company, 339th Infantry, 85th Division (Detachment in North Russia)
Date of Action: September 27 - 28, 1918
Citation:
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Lawrence B. Kilroy, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Kadish, Russia, September 27 - 28, 1918. Acting as stretcher bearer to two companies of infantry in action against the Bolsheviks, Private Kilroy for two days and nights made his way through swamps and forest to administer first aid and carry wounded to the dressing station. His work at all times was accomplished under sweeping machine-gun and intense artillery fire, making it necessary for him to crawl on his hands and knees for long distances.
General Orders: General Order No. 78, W.D., 1919
Home Town: Detroit, MI

PAUL, HUBERT C.
Private, U.S. Army
337 Ambulance Company, 310th Sanitary Train, 339th Infantry (Attached), 85th Division (Detachment in North Russia)
Date of Action: September 27 - 28, 1918
Citation:
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Hubert C. Paul, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Kadish, Russia, September 27 - 28, 1918, while acting as stretcher bearer to two companies of infantry in action against the Bolsheviks. Private Paul for 2 days and nights made his way through swamps and forests to administer first aid and carry wounded to the dressing station. His work at all times was accomplished under sweeping machine gun and intense artillery fire, making it necessary for him to crawl on his hands and knees for long distances.
General Orders: General Orders No. 78, W.D., 1919
Home Town: Detroit, MI

*POWERS, RALPH E.
First Lieutenant, U.S. Army
337th Ambulance Company, 310th Sanitary Train, 85th Division (Detachment in North Russia)
Date of Action: January 20 - 23, 1918
Citation:
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ralph E. Powers, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action, at Ust Padenga, Russia, January 20 - 23, 1919. While his dressing station was burning as a result of having been struck by a shell, Lieutenant Powers successfully evacuated all his patients numbering forty. He then moved to a new location and continued to work for two days under shell fire, until this dressing station too was struck and he himself mortally wounded, whereupon he gave orders that the other wounded should be removed first, and that he be left until the last.
General Orders: General Order No. 89, W.D., 1919
Home Town: Amherst, OH

TULEY, HOMER A.
Private First Class, U.S. Army
377th Ambulance Company, 310th Sanitary Train, 85th Division (Detachment in North Russia)
Date of Action: April 2, 1919
Citation:
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Homer A. Tuley, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bolshieozerke, Russia, April 2, 1919. Private First Class Tuley went forward some 200 yards in front of our lines into an area swept by artillery and machine-gun fire to assist in bringing a wounded man to a place of safety.
General Orders: General Order No. 19, W.D., 1920
Home Town: Detroit, MI

ZECH, CLARENCE H.
Private, U.S. Army
337th Ambulance Company, 339th Infantry, 85th Division (Detachment in North Russia)
Date of Action: September 27 - 28, 1918
Citation:
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Clarence H. Zech, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Kadish, Russia, September 27 - 28, 1918. Acting as stretcher bearer to two companies of infantry in action against the Bolsheviks, Private Zech for two days and nights made his way through swamps and forests to administer first aid and carry wounded to the dressing station. His work at all times was accomplished under sweeping machine-gun and intense artillery fire, making it necessary for him to crawl on his hands and knees for long distances.
General Orders: General Order No. 78, W.D., 1919
Home Town: Detroit, MI

SIBERIAN EXPEDITION

FRUNDT, OSCAR C.
Captain (Medical Corps), U.S. Army
Medical Corps A.E.F. (Siberia)
Date of Action: June 12, 13 - 18, & 25, 1919
Citation:
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Oscar C. Frundt, Captain (Medical Corps), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in eastern Siberia, while in command of a hospital train on June 12, 1919, from June 13 to June 18, 1919, and on June 25, 1919, for his expeditious treatment and care of wounded and the skillful handling of a hospital train while under fire.
General Orders: General Order No. 133, W.D., 1919
Home Town: Jersey City, NJ