Francis L. Monk

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Francis L. Monk, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Grand Pre, France, October 15, 1913. Private Monk crawled out into an open field where another soldier lay severely wounded, under fire from machine guns and snipers, and dragged him. to the shelter of a wall, where he dressed his wounds. In so doing Private Monk was himself wounded.