Austin Gates
Home Town: Drummond, MT
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 81, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Austin Gates, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Charpentry, France, October 3, 1918. Private Gates went forward with three other soldiers, and, though subjected to intense enemy fire rescued a wounded soldier who had fallen in advance of our lines.