John Andres, Jr.
Home Town: Forks, NY
General Orders No. No. 2, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John Andres, Jr., Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cierges, France, October 4, 1918. As the company runner Private Andres repeatedly carried important messages across areas swept by artillery and machine-gun fire. Upon returning after delivering a message he picked up an abandoned machine gun of a wounded comrade and bravely bore it forward into the attack 500 meters until killed by enemy machine-gun fire.
