Ross E. Read
Home Town: Portland, OR
General Orders No. 32, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ross E. Read, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cantigny, France, May 28, 1918. Private Read voluntarily went forward over an area swept by machine-gun fire to the aid of a wounded comrade, who was entangled in barbed wire. He worked in a perilously exposed position until he extricated his companion and carried him to safety.
