George L. Ellis
Home Town: Aurora, MO
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to George L. Ellis, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Brieullep, France, November 4, 1918. While his regiment was trying to force a crossing over the Meuse River, Sergeant Ellis swam and saved the lives of two of his comrades who had become exhausted in the cold water.
