Alexander Salik
Home Town: Grand Rapids, MI
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 21, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Alexander Salik, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Juvigny, north of Soissons, France, August 28, 1918. Sergeant Salik, regardless of wounds and of mustard gas burns previously received, rejoined and advanced with his company in the attack, and assisted in reforming a platoon after it had suffered severe casualties.