Frederick V. Burgess
Home Town: Burlington, VT
General Orders No. 35, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Frederick V. Burgess, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Mihiel, France, September 13, 1918. After being painfully wounded by a machine-gun bullet in a particularly intense barrage of machine-gun and shell fire Lieutenant Burgess remained with his platoon, visiting his guns and directing their fire throughout a determined counterattack, refusing to be evacuated until the attack was over.
