Ernest W. Ball
Home Town: Rigby, ID
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ernest W. Ball, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Eclisfontaine, France, September 29, 1918. While his company was being harassed by enemy snipers hidden in imitation tanks, Private Ball, without aid, went forward and succeeded in killing one and capturing another.