Peter A. De Vos
Home Town: Chicago, IL
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Peter A. De Vos, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cunel, France, October 14, 1918. Accompanied by one other soldier, Private DeVos flanked two machine-gun nests, killed seven of the enemy, and captured four machine-guns, thereby making it possible for two companies of his battalion to enter the woods and continue the advance.
