William C. Rock
Home Town: Philadelphia, PA
General Orders No. 32, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William C. Rock, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Molain, France, October 17, 1918. Lieutenant Rock was in charge of a tank when it was struck by three shells from a German trench mortar, which set fire to the tank and knocked the track off. He assisted in extricating the wounded men from the tank and carrying them to the only available cover. In attempting to put an enemy machine-gun out of action with his pistol, he was killed.
