Everett A. Kilmer
Home Town: Seneca, IL
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 81, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Everett A. Kilmer, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Charpentry, France, October 3, 1918. Private Kilmer voluntarily accompanied three other soldiers and went forward under heavy enemy fire and rescued a wounded comrade who had fallen in advance of our lines.