Frank S. Marek
Home Town: Grand Rapids, MI
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 98, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Frank S. Marek, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Romagne, France, October 14, 1918. With another soldier, Corporal Marek crawled 200 yards ahead of his company and reduced a machine-gun nest which had been holding up the advance, killing three of the enemy and capturing 18.