Frederick Schmelz
Home Town: Jersey City, NJ
General Orders No. No. 1, W.D., 1926
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Frederick Schmelz, Cook, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action north of Verdun, France, October 27, 1918. Cook Schmelz volunteered to take hot food to the front line troops who had not received hot food for three days. After traveling four kilometers he was fatally wounded by a bursting shell.
