Frank Zilkey

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Frank Zilkey, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near the Forest of Argonne, France, October 9, 1918. After all the other members of his squad had been killed or wounded in advancing on a hostile machine-gun, Corporal Zilkey pressed forward alone in the face of direct fire from the gun, and by remarkable courage, captured both the gun and its crew. Upon his own initiative he then started out alone to attack another gun, and was killed.