Benjamin Gonzales
Home Town: Watrous, NM
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 26, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Benjamin Gonzales, Wagoner, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Crezancy and Chateau-Thierry, France, July 15, 1918. While on duty with the 30th Infantry, Wagoner Gonzales saw an officer and two soldiers killed while attempting to remove company records which were in danger of capture. He then left his dugout, succeeded in bringing up a truck, loaded what records he could, and after assisting several wounded men into the truck drove it out under heavy shell fire.