Fred G. Soucy
Distinguished Service Cross
U.S. Army
World War I
General Orders No. 15, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Fred G . Soucy, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action south of Soissons, France, July 18, 1918. When his platoon was held up by a machine-gun Private Soucy, with two other privates who were killed before reaching the emplacement, charged the gun, killed the crew of five Germans, and captured their gun.