Ralph Ethier
Home Town: Hoquaim, WA
General Orders No. 13, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ralph Ethier, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Gesnes, France, September 26, 1918. Sergeant Ethier, who was in charge of the signal section attached to the attacking battalion, displayed remarkable coolness and disregard for personal danger in bringing the battalion telephone line through heavy artillery and machine-gun fire to the ridge which was being attacked, and there establishing communication with regimental headquarters.
