Frank M. Williams

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Frank M. Williams, Captain, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Juvin. France, October 12 and 16, 1918. During the operations in the vicinity of St. Juvin this officer demonstrated the highest personal bravery and leadership. On October 12, although he was wounded, he organized a provisional combat group and led it to a ridge, repulsing an enemy counterattack which threatened our left flank. On October 16 while he was reconnoitering a position for machine-guns he rescued an American soldier from five armed Germans four of whom he killed with his pistol. Later on the same day he saw a hostile skirmish line advancing toward hill 182, He rushed a machine-gun forward with which the attack was broken.