George J. Shively
Home Town: Brookville, PA
General Orders No. No. 109, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to George J. Shively, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action during the fighting near Soissons, France, July 21, 1918. Private First Class Shively drove his ambulance through shell fire and continued on after his car was badly shattered until he had delivered his patients to a dressing station, when he fainted from serious wounds in his left arm and both legs, existence of which he had denied when the ambulance was hit.
