Dan Gilts
Home Town: Mishawaka, IN
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Dan Gilts, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Crezancy, France, July 15, 1918. After being wounded, Private Gilts was being evacuated when he discovered that all ammunition carriers of a nearby battery had been disabled. He insisted in being allowed to carry up ammunition until the battery was completely out of action.
