Ernest Wornek
Home Town: Mackay, ID
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 71, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ernest Wornek, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Moulin-de-Charlevaux, France, October 3, 1918. Facing heavy machine-gun and rifle fire, Private Wornek went out alone and rescued a soldier who had been wounded in advance of our lines while on a patrol.