Gray Swingle
Home Town: Newark, OH
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 88, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Gray Swingle, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bois-des-Tailoux, March 28, 1918. The patrol came under hostile machine-gun fire and Sergeant Swingle was mortally wounded. He gave instructions to the patrol to return to their company commander and ordered them to leave him, as the patrol was under fire and would all probably be wiped out. He died March 28, 1918.