John C. Martens
Home Town: Anaheim, CA
General Orders No. No. 39, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John C. Martens, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Kazanka, Siberia, July 3, 1919. Private Martens carried a message across a field under fairly heavy fire. He then volunteered to go to break up a sniper’s nest, and went alone to an exposed and dangerous point where he could fire at the nest and broke it up, killing one of the snipers and driving the rest away.
