Ferdinand A. Schmidt
Home Town: Newark, NJ
General Orders No. 35, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ferdinand A. Schmidt, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Talma Farm, France, October 22, 1918. When his company’s advance had been held up by intense machine-gun fire, Private Schmidt crawled through a barrage of hand grenades, and at the point of his bayonet held 19 of the enemy in a dugout until assistance arrived. Before performing this courageous act, he was slightly wounded.
