Christian Gross
Home Town: Chicago, IL
Distinguished Service Cross
Siberian Intervention
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 133, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Christian Gross, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Uspanka, Siberia, June 11, 1919. While leading a combat patrol Lieutenant Gross was fired on by an unknown force of enemy; he left his patrol, after giving them orders to fire on the enemy, and advanced through a fire-swept zone to an advantageous position on a hill from which he assisted greatly in forcing the retirement of the enemy.