Tod Ford Gillett
Home Town: Tampa, FL
General Orders No. No. 126, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Tod Ford Gillett, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action June 19, 1918, near Beaumont, France. Private First Class Gillett volunteered to proceed with his ambulance under heavy bombardment to bring wounded men to a place of safety. While returning on this perilous trip he was killed by a shell.
