James G. Rieck
Home Town: Delaware, OH
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to James G. Rieck, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Villers-sur-Fere, France, July 27, 1918. Severely wounded while doing first-aid work, Private Rieck declined to go to the rear, but dressed his own wound and continued to advance with his battalion, treating the wounded and assisting in their evacuation until he was sent to the hospital 12 hours later.