George E. Hughes
Home Town: Rainbow, CA
General Orders No. No. 128, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to George E. Hughes, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Eclisfontaine, France, September 27 – 30, 1918. Sergeant Hughes was seriously gassed September 27, but refused to leave his post and continued working and fighting with his comrades under heavy shelling for three days till complete exhaustion forced him to be evacuated.
