Ralph Edward Ord
Distinguished Service Cross
U.S. Army
World War I
General Orders No. No. 128, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ralph Edward Ord, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action west of Fismette, France, August 10, 1918. Sergeant Ord, with another soldier, voluntarily left a place of safety and crawled through heavy machine-gun and shell fire to the aid of a comrade who had fallen wounded during the withdrawal of their company from an exposed position, carrying him 75 yards across an open area to shelter.
