Jay D. Gumm
Home Town: Dallas, TX
General Orders No. 20, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Jay D. Gumm, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Vadenay, north of Chalons-sur-Marne, France, July 15, 1918. During the shelling of Vadenay Sergeant Gumm voluntarily left a place of safety and went through heavy fire of major caliber shells and rescued a French soldier who was lying, severely wounded, in the street.
