Emery Hawks
Home Town: Flint, MI
General Orders 71, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Emery Hawks, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Romagne, France, October 8, 1918. Sergeant Hawks led his platoon after his Lieutenant had been killed and when the advance was held up by intense machine-gun fire, fearlessly exposed himself in going in advance of his men to rescue a wounded soldier, being killed while administering first-aid treatment to him.
