Joseph E. Shantz
Home Town: Wilmette, IL
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Joseph E. Shantz, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Consenvoye, France, October 13, 1918. Although seriously wounded in the head by shrapnel, Lieutenant Shantz went forward to rectify the position of our troops, who were occupying the ground on which our barrage was scheduled to fall. Through a perilous fire, he brought the line back to a new position.
