Douglass R. Ross

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Douglass R. Ross, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Vaux, France, July 16, 1918. Private Ross killed two of the enemy who were attempting to establish a machine-gun position in a railroad station and captured their machine-guns. Later, the same day, when snipers were working in a ravine near the American line, he, with two other soldiers, went forward to drive them back. One of his comrades was killed, but he, with great daring, attacked the Germans, killing one and wounding another.