August Gcalairtch
Home Town: Newark, NJ
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 21, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to August Gcalairtch, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Soissons, France, July 25, 1918. While endeavoring with his automatic rifle to silence the fire of an enemy machine-gun nest, which was holding up a portion of our line, Private Gcalairtch was killed by shell fire.