Frank Alekno
Home Town: Lawrence, MA
General Orders No. 88, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Frank Alekno, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Maujouy Farm, Senoncourt, France, while a member of a patrol of three men on April 21, 1918. Private Alekno attacked a hostile patrol of seven men, and although fatally wounded continued in action until the hostile patrol was driven back and the officers commanding it, with a noncommissioned officer, was killed. Although mortally wounded, he carried a message for assistance to a point 200 yards away.
